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AI Infrastructure Partnership

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. · 2026-10-15 · Importance 31 · Surprise 42

Cisco and NVIDIA announced a collaboration to introduce next-generation 400G optical technology for AI data centers. The companies plan to commercialize an ultra-small-form-factor pluggable (USFP) standard intended to quadruple bandwidth density. Cisco and NVIDIA also aim to build an open hardware ecosystem with additional optical and networking vendors to support large-scale AI workloads.

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