Cisco and NVIDIA Develop High-Density Optical Technology for Next-Generation AI Infrastructure

Cisco and NVIDIA have announced a collaboration to develop Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a high-density optical module designed to support 400Gb/s-per-lane connectivity in next-generation AI infrastructure. As AI models become more complex and demand for inference increases, data centre operators need to connect larger numbers of computing systems while managing network capacity, power …