Cisco, Nvidia Tackle AI’s Growing Data Center Bottleneck

Cisco and Nvidia are partnering to develop new optical networking technology intended to improve data transfer speeds within artificial intelligence data centers. As AI models become more capable, the massive volume of traffic between servers creates significant bottlenecks that existing infrastructure struggles to manage. This collaboration aims to alleviate those limitations by modernizing how hardware components communicate at scale. By addressing these connectivity challenges, the companies seek to ensure that data centers can support the increasing performance requirements of future AI workloads.