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Network Virtualization

Software-defined switching, routing and firewalling that runs independently of the physical network fabric, typically inside a hypervisor platform.

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Broadcom's VP says VMware "walked back" from SmartNIC network offload

The Distributed Services Engine still ships inside Cloud Foundation, but the SmartNIC-resident distributed firewall that justified it is no longer sold, and Broadcom's lifecycle documentation ends the matching security capability by October 2027.

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