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Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

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  1. a11r · · focus · HN ↗
    Back in 2008 Fujitsu has one of the best performing 10Gbps Switches. We were building 40 Gbps packet sniffers at Google (4x 10 Gbps NICs) and needed switches that could do things like mirror traffic across ports at line rate. Fujitsu was way ahead of the pack. I always wondered what held them back from building a meaningful networking business in the US.
    1. kjs3 · · focus · HN ↗
      The XG series switches? Force10 sold them until Dell bought Force10 and continued to sell them (although the firmware changed a lot along the way). They were, AFAIK, pretty popular in the US under the Dell brand.

      My home network is XG2000 10G core and a few XG0224 1G/10G dist. Very nice switches.

      1. xenadu02 · · focus · HN ↗
        Ubiquity proved you can bust into the market from the bottom end if you want. Nothing was stopping them from doing the same but like many companies they prefer to focus on how much money they can siphon from the Fortune 1000 so I can't say I feel sorry for them.
        1. kjs3 · · focus · HN ↗
          I'm not sure why that's relevent, particularly since Ubiquity's approach wouldn't have remotely competed with Fujitsus custom ASICs if they were actual contemporaries, but you clearly have an agenda you're in love with, so...ok, sure.
          1. xenadu02 · · focus · HN ↗
            No I was just saying Fujitsu never really made a play for any US marketshare. They had ways to go about it but they stuck to what they knew: high-touch sales, locked down support, focus on the Fortune 1000.

            That's too bad.

            1. kjs3 · · focus · HN ↗
              Fujitsu sold to Force10/Dell and did quite well in the US market. Which is completely tangential anything to do with Ubiquity, which never competed in the Fujitsu space, which even you seem to understand (maybe? vaguely?) is a different market. Which they were successful in.

              Seriously...do you have a point?

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