Re-inventing the Network Switch to Accelerate Efficient AI

Data centres consume more than 2% of the world’s energy. Data demand is rising faster than energy supply – this is the greatest single challenge facing AI today.

With AI accelerating, data centre core technology must be optimised to be more efficient and higher performance.

Network switches are the unsung, yet power-hungry workhorses of data centres and hyperscalers. Moving data packets back and forth between CPU and/or GPU clusters, network switches alone account for 20% of a data centre’s total energy use.

Incremental improvements on existing architectures are no longer enough.

To exponentially scale network compute and accelerate AI efficiently,
a step change in network switch technology is required.

Introducing the world’s first

fully-optical passive network switch

Finchetto’s next-generation network switch leverages optics and eliminates electronics to increase performance while slashing power demands. We’ve achieved this by reinventing the network switch from first principles to accelerate efficient AI.

Fully optical, zero electronics switching with completely passive logic

Delivers ultra-low latency and super-high throughput packet switching

Requires a fraction of the power used by today’s state-of-the-art switches

Achieve much more compute for far less power

EXTREME EFFICIENCY

At just 38 Watts, Finchetto delivers a 26 – 53x reduction in power compared to state-of-the-art network switches.

ULTRA LOW LATENCY

Port-to-port latency of 40 nanoseconds. That’s up to 50x lower latency than current state-of-the-art options.

UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH

Packet switching at the speed and throughput of the surrounding transceivers, enabling next-gen network topologies such as PolarFly for massively distributed compute.

A new architecture to make light work of AI

48-port Switch Demonstrator

Today’s AI clusters are served by electro-optical network switches that introduce latency, slow switching speed, limit bandwidth and make intensive power demands.

Some electro-optical network switches prioritise lower power consumption but introduce latency, while others focus on reducing latency at the cost of higher power usage.

It’s time to end the trade-offs.

Only Finchetto offers super-low latency while consuming just a fraction of the power of existing packet switches.

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