By Unite.AI
Publication Date: 2026-10-12 15:23:00
Cisco unveiled new networking silicon, systems and optics for open AI infrastructure at the OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose on October 12, 2026, including a 51.2T top-of-rack switching chip, a new out-of-band management system, and a planned 400Gb/s-per-lane pluggable optics module designed with NVIDIA.
Kevin Wollenweber, Cisco’s senior vice president and general manager of data center and internet infrastructure, said AI is changing what it means to scale infrastructure, shifting the focus from individual data centers or clusters to how compute is connected at massive scale while performance and resilience are preserved.
Scale-Across Architecture and P200 Production
Cisco’s scale-across work targets AI jobs that run across multiple facilities rather than inside a single site. The approach builds on conventional data center interconnect technology, but the workload demands differ: when accelerators across sites share one coordinated job, congestion,…
