Ecosystem Driven Standards Working Groups  
Ecosystem Driven Standards are not only are about driving standards at your company's level, but understanding one level up and one level down in the supply chain for more satisfied customers and suppliers.  If you do not see your company as a "driver", you still want to make sure your standards needs are in the mix so you can better understand and contribute to what is possible or what is not possible. 
 

Multi-Core Fiber - Rack Density Management 

​Multi-Core Fiber has been around for over 10+ years. Over the next five years , hyperscale data centers are expected to significantly scale up the number of nodes in AI clusters to tens of thousands. This growth will require a substantial advancement in fiber optic cabling to support the massive connectivity required. Key innovations in fiber technology and connectivity will play a critical role in enabling this expansion.

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Multicore Fiber (MCF) offers significantly enhanced bandwidth capacity compared to a conventional Data Center Network Advances single-mode fiber.  Conventional single-mode fiber has a single core carrying a single data stream. MCF has multiple independent cores within a single fiber strand, each capable of transmit ting a parallel optical data stream. 

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Focus:

• GPU to GPU (Transceiver to Transceiver) interconnects

• Silicon photonics interconnects

• Switch to switch with co-packaged optics

• DC to DC links on campus or off campus

• Disaggregated interconnects for intra rack

 

 

Ecosystem Standards Drive:​

• Increased Bandwidth and Materials Reduction(fiber jackets, reels, conduit space etc.)

• Faster deployment

• Easier decommissioning

• Lower power consumption for point-to-point connectivity

• Lower BOM costs