Startup Radar: Aria Networks Cranks Up Telemetry to Optimize Ethernet for AI Workloads (opens in new tab)

Aria Networks is a network hardware and software startup that sells Ethernet switches to companies that run GPU clusters for AI model training and inferencing. Aria Networks makes switches with Broadcom ASICs (Tomahawk 5 and 6) running the SONiC network OS. But Aria Networks isn’t really a hardware play. It differentiates with software that collects fine-grained telemetry about network performance. It aims to analyze and act on that telemetry to squeeze more efficiency from the network than c...