Control your destiny in the token-based AI economy with pluggable optics innovations - PSOMSI-1005#

Ray Nering (Cisco), Yoav Schreiber (Cisco)

• Why: Down-ranked as a PSO product session, but it carries the substantive technology story behind Cisco's optics roadmap: silicon photonics, 1.6T pluggables, and Linear Pluggable Optics.
• What: How Cisco's 1.6T pluggable optics and Silicon Photonics serve AI back-end/front-end networks, and how LPO moves the DSP power draw from the module into the switch silicon (from abstract only).
• How: Details the power-efficiency mechanics of LPO on Silicon One G300 platforms (liquid- and air-cooled) and Cisco's field-reliability approach: qualification, test, and over-the-wire firmware updates across deployed optics fleets.
• Where applicable: Cisco-optics-specific; the LPO power trade-off (and its reach/reliability constraints) is an industry-wide decision point for anyone building 1.6T back-ends.