Acacia’s Tom Williams and Cisco’s Mark Nowell explore the latest trends in AI infrastructure and their impact on optical interconnects, including:
- Scale Up: Enhancing the capacity of individual systems by increasing compute power, memory, and storage within a single node to handle demanding AI training and inference tasks.
- Scale Out: Expanding capacity horizontally by connecting multiple nodes into clusters, enabling distributed AI workloads and parallel processing.
- Scale Across: Extending high-performance networking across multiple data center locations to support AI workloads.
