Telescent, a manufacturer of Optical Circuit Switches (OCS) and automated fibre patch-panels for network and data centre operators, has announced a significant milestone with the award of the largest order in the company's history from one of the world's top cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) hyperscale data centre operators.
This deployment underscores the increasing demand for Telescent's innovative robotic solutions, positioning the company as a key player in managing the rapidly growing scale of data centre fibre interconnects.
Telescent’s solution automates tens of thousands of physical links, enabling advanced networking architectures for machine learning. This slashes the time required to perform cross-connects and reduces human-error.
The data centre industry is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by factors such as generative AI, GPU efficiency, increasing bandwidth demands and the escalating scale of network interconnects. The OCS order, coupled with broad customer deployment growth, is driving a significant acceleration in Telescent adoption and revenue growth.
In prior research with Meta and MIT, use of the Telescent system improved machine learning training time by a factor of 3.4x. The company's recently released G5 robotic cross-connect system is a double-density system, featuring more than 2,000 duplex ports. It has gained significant attention from large-scale data centre operators based on its compelling economics and low-loss performance.
Telescent’s large-scale, low-loss, robotic patch-panel solution brings automation to the fibre layer of optical networks. Telescent’s all-optical, latched connection approach ensures optimal performance and reliability while enabling software control for remote reconfigurations and diagnostics.
