Chips & Infrastructure · first seen 14 October 2026, 13:30 UTC
Cisco and Nvidia develop 12.8 Tbps optical pluggable USFP
Pushes optical interconnect bandwidth 8x to feed ever-larger AI clusters.
Cisco and Nvidia are teaming on a new optical pluggable called USFP that targets 12.8 Tbps per module, far above today's 1.6 Tbps optics, for AI datacenter networking.