Copper’s days are numbered inside AI racks as Cisco bets on optics
AI infrastructure networking nears a shift from copper to optics, Cisco's Rakesh Chopra told theCUBE, as scale-up domains grow beyond a rack.
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Copper’s days are numbered inside AI racks as Cisco bets on optics
AI infrastructure networking is approaching a physical turning point as the copper links that tie GPUs together inside a rack strain under ever-faster signaling speeds. The move to light-based interconnects could redraw the boundaries of what counts as a single AI system.
Cisco Systems Inc. is pressing that transition on several fronts, from new silicon and pluggable optics to an optical standard developed with Nvidia Corp. The industry…
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