This program focuses on next generation optical technologies for intra and/or inter data center connectivity. Evolving data center requirements and challenges will be discussed as they pertain to equipment, technologies, applications and deployment scenarios.
Data Center Summit
12:30 PM
09 March 2027
Expo Theater I
Niche or Mainstream? Optical Circuit Switching for AI-Enabled Data Center (Scale-Out)
Optical circuit switching (OCS) has re-emerged as a technology with the potential to redefine data center architectures. With initial Google deployments, interest in OCS has been reignited. This panel will explore the key technologies behind OCS, potential applications, benefits and challenges in...
Data Center Summit
2:15 PM
09 March 2027
Expo Theater I
AI Data Center Scale-Across Technologies and Trends
The rapid growth of large-scale AI is driving a shift toward distributed, scale-across data-center architectures, where workloads span multiple sites to balance compute, power, and cooling constraints. This evolution introduces stringent requirements on latency, bandwidth, and synchronization...