Ciena Unveils New Pluggable Optical Engine to Meet Data Center AI Demands
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Ciena unveils new pluggable optical engine to meet data center AI demands. February 25, 2026 Press play to listen to this content HANOVER, Md., Feb. 25, 2026 - Building on its long history as the leader in high-speed connectivity - and marking the first product introduction following its acquisition of Nubis Communications - Ciena is unveiling Vesta 200 6.4T CPX, the industry's highest-density, lowest-power pluggable CPO solution. Designed to reduce power consumption by up to 70%, the solution helps hyperscalers, cloud providers, and data center operators evolve their architectures to reliably address AI workloads in both scale-out networks as well as next generation scale-up networks. "We're delivering the industry's first truly flexible, open pluggable optical engine, removing barriers to CPO adoption and giving our customers exactly what they've been asking for: greater density, power efficiency, and reliability - all in an open, multi-vendor ecosystem," said Dino DiPerna, Senior Vice President of Global Research & Development at Ciena. "We continue to innovate in response to evolving customer needs, allowing operators to scale AI clusters more efficiently, using less energy and space, while lowering overall infrastructure costs." Vesta 200 6.4T CPX provides more power-efficient optical interconnect and delivers the chip-edge density required for massive scale-up and...
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