iPronics and BSC Advance Optical Networking for AI

iPronics, a pioneer in silicon photonics-based optical circuit switching for AI infrastructure, announced a two-year strategic technology collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) focused on advancing programmable optical networking for next-generation GPU-based AI and high-performance computing infrastructure.

For cloud providers and hyperscalers, integrating programmable optics has historically required custom software, but iPronics ONE changes that paradigm by offering a rack-ready, plug-and-play optical circuit switching architecture designed to integrate seamlessly into existing GPU environments. By demonstrating dynamic, workload-aware network control across hardware and software within BSC’s infrastructure, the strategic collaboration offers cloud providers and hyperscalers a clear path to maximizing GPU utilization, reducing latency, and lowering energy consumption without replacing their existing software stack.

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“AI infrastructure is reaching a point where scaling compute also requires rethinking the network,” said Christian Dupont, CEO of iPronics. “Networking needs to become more dynamic and more closely aligned with the behavior of AI workloads. Our strategic collaboration with BSC is an important milestone in bringing programmable optical networking deeper into the AI infrastructure stack.”

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Source: GlobeNewswire