• Cisco teamed with Nvidia to develop an open specification for a next-generation 400G-per-lane pluggable optics module design.
• The companies plan to advance the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP) format through a community-led, multi-source project.
• The effort targets higher bandwidth density for AI data center networks while keeping pluggable optics serviceability and vendor choice.

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