NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI Factories
<p>New Transceivers Enable AI Builders to Scale Compute Within the Same Network Footprint While Reducing Networking’s Share of the Power Budget SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12, 2026 — NVIDIA and Cisco today announced plans for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new high-density 400Gb/s-per-lane optical module designed to equip the hardware ecosystem for the next generation […]</p>
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