CALIENT Technologies said its S320 Optical Circuit Switch is in trials with data centers as an optical interconnect for cutting-edge disaggregated dat ...

CALIENT launched the S160, a 160-port Optical Circuit Switch for data center, hosting and co-location interconnect, carrier networks, network equipmen ...

Coherent will hold a first-of-its-kind demo at OFC 2024 of a 300x300-port optical circuit switch based on ultrareliable DLX technology, revolutionizing data center networks for AI deployments.

Lumentum estimates that adopting its OCS can reduce overall AI data center network power consumption by 65% or more in 100K-scale GPU deployments compared to InfiniBand or Ethernet solutions.

What is a network switch? A network switch is a physical device that operates at the Data Link layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model — Layer 2.