One interconnect session, four competing standards: 'optical interconnects are a filthy mess'
jwt0625 · x · 2026-09-07
Optical interconnect engineer jwt0625 admits he'd never heard of Open CPX before, quipping that working in optical interconnects "is a filthy mess."
An MSA Lightning Talk session he shared covers four parallel interconnect standards—OCI, Open CPX, SDM4 MCF, and XPO—a proliferation that itself illustrates how fragmented the field has become.
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