RE: Silicom & Napatech11 Mar 2021 07:55
As I have said many times before you are comparing apples to pears. Both are fruit but if you need apples pears won't do.
Ethernity fpga can be used in data centre servers but that is not what they are optimised for. Silicom SmartNIC is a dumb NIC. It's a shell for others to make work. Most of the "competition" is like this. So you buy your NIC then you look for someone to make it do what you want. Ethernity do the whole process. Ethernity products are optimised for specific tasks ready to go. Therefore they are perfectly suited to that task.
It is why Ethernity know when sales will start and why the haven't started before now.
Ethernity pick the user case, build the solution then wait for the solution to reach maturity.
Others build a fpga NIC then wait for a software vendor to run with it.
Ethernity are very specific to Telecom, they understand the needs and the solutions are exactly fitting the requirements.
Ethernity has competition but it is not direct, it is not the same. Ethernity will win many sales very soon, some will be complete but most will be partial. This is OpenRAN.