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21 October 2026
NVIDIA–Cisco USFP pluggable optics form factor for 400 Gb/s-per-lane AI fabrics
optical interconnect
HardwareCompany or official announcementTRL: Validated prototype
Evidence: corporate announcement · TRL: validated prototype · Sources: newsroom.cisco.com · newsroom.cisco.com · RKV-RND-2026-10-21-043
Full write-up from 21 October 2026
Latest verified R&D update. Date: 2026-10 (OCP Global Summit). In October 2026, Cisco and NVIDIA introduced a new pluggable optics form factor (USFP) supporting 400 Gb/s-per-lane AI fabrics, and Cisco presented open AI-infrastructure work at OCP 2026. Evidence: corporate announcement. TRL: validated prototype. Source(s): https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2026/m10/nvidia-and-cisco-new-pluggable-optics-to-scale-ai-factories.html; https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2026/m10/cisco-advances-scalability-and-openness-at-ocp-2026.html