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company update · 12 October 2026

NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI Factories

NVIDIA and Cisco today announced plans for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new high-density 400Gb/s-per-lane optical module designed to equip the hardware ecosystem for the next generation of AI factories using pluggable transceivers.

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