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Nov 29, 2024 · Industry Insights

How AI Workloads Are Driving the Rise of All‑Optical Switches

The article examines the shift from optical‑to‑electrical‑to‑optical (OEO) to fully optical (OOO) switching, highlighting Lightmatter's Passage technology and Google's large‑scale OCS deployment as key responses to growing AI compute demands in data‑center networks.