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1 video interview · 2026
AI's 4 Major Challenges to Ethernet Standards in Data Centers
- AI generations now turn over in 1–2 years, versus the traditional 4–5 year Ethernet cycle.
- AI data centers need mature, deployment-ready products immediately, at volumes of hundreds of millions of optical units.
- Scale-up, scale-out, scale-across, and scale-in requirements add complexity to Ethernet standardization.
Abstract
Rangchen Yu, Vice President of Marketing at Terahop, examines four major challenges AI presents to the Ethernet community: accelerated generational changes (now 1-2 years versus traditional 4-5 year cycles), immediate demand for deployment-ready products, massive volume increases requiring hundreds of millions of optical units across multiple generations, and diverse AI infrastructure requirements spanning scale-up, scale-out, scale-across, and scale-in networking. Yu expresses confidence that the Ethernet community will leverage its decades of experience with open standards in optical networking to successfully address these challenges.