NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce Ultra-Dense USFP Pluggable Optics: Delivering 400Gb/s Per Lane and 12.8Tb/s Capacity to Scale AI Datacenters
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026 in San Jose, NVIDIA and Cisco introduced the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP)-a next-generation optical transceiver module engineered to expand AI computing clusters without adding network complexity. Designed as the industry’s first optical interconnect module to support electrical signaling rates of 400Gb/s per lane, USFP…
