Efficient interconnectivity for hyperscale networks
Space- and power-optimized networking technologies architected for advanced AI factories
Design and deploy efficient networks at scale
The challenge
Current networking technologies require too much power and provide too little front-panel data density. They’re also inefficient, resulting in high latency and high costs.
Our approach
By carefully combining innovative and proven technologies, we deliver high-performance, differentiated products. These products ensure link reliability and are highly efficient, requiring minimal space and power consumption.
The benefits
Gain data density increases approaching an order of magnitude and reduce power consumption in the range of 70% compared with legacy data center technologies. No added latency ensures minimized link transport times between data-hungry XPUs.
Scale-up
Enable massive XPU pods with ultra-dense, low-power solutions that provide robust interconnect at massive scale.
Scale-out
Optimize with standards-based, open-ecosystem technologies that are interoperable with both legacy and current network implementations.
We’re delivering the industry’s first truly flexible, open pluggable optical engine, removing barriers to CPO adoption and giving our customers exactly what they’ve been asking for: greater density, power efficiency, and reliability—all in an open, multi‑vendor ecosystem.
Multi-source agreements
ACC-MSA
Organization standardizing ultra-low-power active copper cables that add zero latency and which are ideal for expanding XPU pod sizes.
Open CPX MSA
Standards body committed to developing open-ecosystem specifications for a new generation of AI-optimized networks.
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