Pluggable optics baseline
CPO: free network power
drag the divider inside the fixed envelope to reallocate power
CPO frees network power in a fixed facility power budget, reallocated to GPU compute
fixed facility power budget
network share
compute share
per-switch power: high
back-end fabric
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east-west
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east-west
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east-west
east-west AI traffic
makes the back-end fabric the
dominant network power draw
GPU capacity
freed power reallocated to compute
added GPU capacity
tokens-per-watt
same envelope — freed kW becomes GPU capacity and tokens