Broadcoms taps AI to improve switch chip traffic analysis
Broadcom's Trident 5-X12 networking chip is the company's first to add an artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing engine.
Data centre operators can use their network traffic to train the chip's neural network. The Trident 5's inference engine, dubbed the Networking General-purpose Neural-network Traffic-analyzer or NetGNT, is loaded with the resulting trained model to classify traffic and detect security threats.
"It is the first time we have put a neural network focused on traffic analysis into a chip," says Robin Grindley, principal product line manager with Broadcom's Core Switching Group.