Broadcom juices VeloCloud SD-WAN for AI networking

VMware Explore Amid all the drama regarding Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, it's been easy to forget that the virtualization giant's SD-WAN outfit, VeloCloud, is now an independent business unit. Broadcom today put it back in the spotlight by revealing it's developed tech to improve networking for AI workloads on the edge.

The new offering is called the "VeloRAIN architecture" – RAIN stands for Robust AI Networking – and its headline feature is the ability to identify encrypted application traffic. Broadcom reckons that's previously been impossible to parse, and changing that means orgs deploying AI applications to the edge can better understand how to improve quality of service.

Given AI applications often involve proprietary info, and are latency sensitive, this sounds handy.

Many edge sites use wireless connections. VeloRAIN has them covered with "channel estimation intelligence" for 5G and satellite links that grooms traffic as network conditions fluctuate ...