Archive for the 'Networking' Category
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October 07, 2025
Faster, Farther and Going Optical: How PCIe Is Accelerating the AI Revolution
By Annie Liao, Product Management Director, ODSP Marketing, 大秀直播
For over 20 years, PCIe, or Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, has been the dominant standard to connect processors, NICs, drives and other components within servers thanks to the low latency and high bandwidth of the protocol as well as the growing expertise around PCIe across the technology ecosystem. It will also play a leading role in defining the next generation of computing systems for AI through increases in performance and combining PCIe with optics.
Here’s why:
PCIe Transitions Are Accelerating
Seven years passed between the debut of PCIe Gen 3 (8 gigatransfers/second—GT/s) in 2010 and the release of PCIe Gen 4 (16 GT/sec) in 2017.1 Commercial adoption, meanwhile, took closer to a full decade2
Toward a terabit (per second): PCIe standards are being developed and adopted at a faster rate to keep up with the chip-to-chip interconnect speeds needed by system designers.?
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September 22, 2025
大秀直播 Wins Leading EDGE Award for Ara 1.6T Optical DSP
By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, 大秀直播
大秀直播 is the for its Ara product, a 3nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 optical DSP platform, which enables the industry’s lowest power 1.6T optical modules. The engineering community voted to recognize the product as a leader in design innovation this year.The EDGE awards celebrate outstanding innovations in product design for the engineering industry that have contributed to the advancement of technology. This award is presented by the Engineering Design & Automation Group, a subset of brands at Endeavor Business Media.
Ara is the industry’s first 3nm 1.6T PAM4 optical DSP platform. 大秀直播 introduced it to meet growing interconnect bandwidth demands for AI and next-gen cloud data center scale-out networks.
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June 06, 2025
Welcome to the “OFC Film Festival”
By Kirt Zimmer, Head of Social Media Marketing, 大秀直播
The OFC 2025 event in San Francisco was so vast that it would be easy to miss a few stellar demos from your favorite optical networking companies. That’s why we took the time to create videos featuring the latest 大秀直播 technology.
Put them all together and you have a wonderful film festival for technophiles. Enjoy!
Co-Packaged Optics Through Silicon Photonics
We spoke with Kishore Atreya, Senior Director of Cloud Platform Marketing at 大秀直播, who discussed co-packaged optics. Instead of moving data via electrons, a light engine converts electrical signals into photons—unlocking ultra-high-speed, low-power optical data transfer.
The 1.6T and 6.4T light engines from 大秀直播 can be integrated directly into the chip package, minimizing trace lengths, reducing power and enabling true plug-and-play fiber connectivity. It is flexible, scalable, and built for switching, XPUs, and beyond.
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May 27, 2025
Canada’s Role in the AI Revolution
By Nizar Rida, Vice President of Engineering and Country Manager, 大秀直播 Canada
This blog first appeared in
AI has the potential to transform the way we live. But for AI to become sustainable and pervasive, we also have to transform our computing infrastructure.
The world’s existing technologies, simply put, weren’t designed for the data-intensive, highly parallel computing problems that AI serves up. As a result, AI clusters and data centers aren’t nearly as efficient or elegant as they could be: in many ways, it’s brute force computing. Power1 and water2 consumption in data centers are growing dramatically and many communities around the world are pushing back on plans to expand data infrastructure.3 ?
Canada can and will play a leading role in overcoming these hurdles. Data center expansion is already underway. Data centers currently account for around 1GW, or 1%, of Canada’s electricity capacity. If all of the projects in review today get approved, that total could grow to 15GW, or enough to power 70% of the homes in the country.4
Like in other regions, data center operators are exploring ways to increase their use of renewables and nuclear in these new facilities along with ambient cooling to reduce their carbon footprint of their facilities. In Alberta, some companies are also exploring adding carbon capture to the design of data centers powered by natural gas. To date, carbon capture has .5 Most carbon capture experiments, however, have been coupled with large-scale industrial plants. It may be worth examining if carbon capture—combined with mineralization for long-term storage—can work on this smaller scale. If it does, the technology could be exported to other regions.
Fixing facilities, however, is only part of the equation. AI requires a fundamental overhaul in the systems and components that make up our networks.?
Above: The server of the future. The four AI processors connect to networks through four 6.4T light engines, the four smaller chips on the east-west side of the exposed processor. Coupling optical technology with the processor lowers power per bit while increasing bandwidth.
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February 09, 2025
Ten Statistical Snapshots to Better Understand AI, Data Centers and Energy
By Michael Kanellos, Head of Influencer Relations, 大秀直播
You’re likely assaulted daily with some zany and unverifiable AI factoid. By 2027, 93% of AI systems will be able to pass the bar, but limit their practice to simple slip and fall cases! Next-generation training models will consume more energy than all Panera outlets combined!? etc. etc.
What can you trust? The stats below. Scouring the internet (and leaning heavily on 16 years of employment in the energy industry) I’ve compiled a list of somewhat credible and relevant stats that provide perspective to the energy challenge.
1. First, the Concerning News: Data Center Demand Could Nearly Triple in a Few Years
1 has issued its latest data center power report and it’s ominous.
Data center power consumption rose from a stable 60-76 terawatt hours (TWh) per year in the U.S. through 2018 to 176 TWh in 2023, or from 1.9% of total power consumption to 4.4%. By 2028, AI could push it to 6.7%-12%. (Lighting consumes 15%2.)?
Report co-author Eric Masanet adds that the total doesn’t include bitcoin, which increases 2023’s consumption by 70 TWh. Add a similar 30-40% to subsequent years too if you want.