By Bill Gartner, Will Eatherton
Publication Date: 2026-10-12 15:00:00
The Ultra-Dense Small Form-Factor Pluggable (USFP) is industry’s first pluggable form factor designed to help customers scale AI networks, providing a path to up to 12.8T of aggregate capacity while preserving proven deployment and serviceability models
As AI evolves from answering prompts to orchestrating complex, multi-step workflows, infrastructure demands are growing rapidly. From training and inference to emerging agentic AI systems, modern AI workloads depend on continuous communication across accelerators, applications, storage, and services, driving unprecedented requirements for bandwidth, responsiveness, and scale.
At Cisco, we believe the future of AI networking will be defined by how effectively silicon, systems, optics, software, and operations work together as a full-stack platform, enabling customers to scale AI with greater performance, efficiency, serviceability, and investment protection by optimizing every layer of the infrastructure together. Customers…
