New Cisco 9300 Switches Add DPUs for Extra Horsepower (opens in new tab)

Cisco has announced new data center switches that include Data Processing Units (DPUs) to provide extra processing power. The DPUs can be used to offload data processing and to run services, such as firewalling, directly on the switches. The AMD Pensando DPUs provide 800G throughput with 128GB of memory.