Ethernet Alliance Showcases Future-Ready Ethernet Innovation at OFC 2025
Industry leaders unite for live interoperability demo, highlighting Ethernet’s expanding role in AI and high-speed networking
BEAVERTON, OR, Mar 18, 2025 – The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today announced details of its annual live interoperability demonstration at the 2025 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC). Located at booth 5173, the exhibit highlights Ethernet’s unparalleled power and adaptability. The OFC 2025 expo will take place April 1 – 3, 2025, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif.
“Ethernet remains at the forefront of high-speed networking, offering the scalable, interoperable foundation needed for artificial intelligence-driven workloads and next-generation connectivity,” said Peter Jones, chair, Ethernet Alliance, and distinguished engineer, Cisco. “We’re bringing together the leading industry innovators at OFC 2025 to illustrate how Ethernet is changing to meet the demands of the future, from cloud-scale infrastructure to AI data centers.”
Pushing the Boundaries of Ethernet Performance
The Ethernet Alliance’s OFC 2025 exhibit showcases Ethernet’s evolution in speed, efficiency, and performance. From 10 gigabit Ethernet (10G) to 800G, Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS), Auto Negotiation Link Training (ANLT), and cutting-edge AI-driven technologies such as congestion control and SmartNIC load balancing will be on display. Additionally, innovations like 224 Gbps electrical signaling, Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO), liquid cooling for high-efficiency networking, and a broad range of interconnects – including OSFP, QSFP-DD, QSFP, ZR, OpenZR+, and SFP – will show how Ethernet is setting new performance standards for next-gen networks.
Industry Collaboration Drives Innovation
The Ethernet Alliance’s OFC 2025 demo unites leading companies from across the Ethernet, networking, and optical ecosystems. Among the industry pacesetters taking part in this year’s display are AMD (NASDAQ: AMD); Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH); Anritsu Corporation (TYO: 6754); Arista Networks Inc. (NYSE: ANET); Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO); EXFO (TSX: EXF, NASDAQ: EXFO); Formerica OptoElectronics Inc.; Hyper Photonix Ltd.; Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR); Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE: KEYS); Spirent Communications plc (LON: SPT); Synopsys Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS); TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE: TEL); Teledyne LeCroy Inc. (NYSE: TDY); VeEX, Inc.; and Wilder Technologies, LLC.
10th Anniversary Ethernet Roadmap Debuts
The Ethernet Alliance is unveiling the 2025 edition of its Ethernet Roadmap at OFC 2025. Celebrating its 10th anniversary as the only comprehensive industry roadmap guiding Ethernet’s evolution, the 2025 edition addresses advancements in high-speed Ethernet, AI/ML integration, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), and sustainability efforts. Complimentary copies will be available at booth #5173 and for download on the Ethernet Alliance website.
Exploring Hyperscale Data Centers Interoperability Challenges
The Ethernet Alliance is hosting the Will the Complexity and Higher Link Speeds of Hyperscale Data Centers Hinder Interoperability? panel discussion on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, from 10:15 to 11:15am PT in Theater II. This session will delve into Ethernet’s evolving role in AI, cloud computing, hyperscale data centers, and high-speed networking, and explore both the impact of higher link speeds and the challenges of ensuring interoperability in increasingly complex environments.
To learn more about OFC 2025, visit https://www.ofcconference.org. For additional information about the Ethernet Alliance, visit https://bit.ly/EA-OFC25PR, follow @EthernetAllianc on X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.
The Ethernet Alliance is a global consortium that includes system and component vendors, and industry experts who are committed to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology. The Ethernet Alliance takes Ethernet standards to market by supporting activities that span from incubation of new Ethernet technologies to interoperability demonstrations and education. The organization’s plans may be found on the Events page of its website.
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“As AI data center deployments accelerate with increased data movement across networks and hyperscale data centers, the 800G Ethernet ecosystem must evolve to meet the efficiency required to manage these ever-increasing workloads. AMD is proud of its work with the Ethernet Alliance and its ecosystem partners to showcase interoperability with our 800G Ethernet IP implemented on a Versal Premium series device ensuring these 800G-based systems will be able to deliver the necessary power efficiency, performance, and security for systems today and in the future.” – Harpinder Matharu, senior director, communications, AMD
“Amphenol is pleased to join the Ethernet Alliance’s Interoperability demonstration at OFC 2025. Interoperability remains a distinguishing pillar of the Ethernet advantage as architectures evolve to meet future bandwidth needs. We’ve enjoyed watching the Ethernet Alliance demonstrations evolve over the years too. From copper to optics and 25GbE to 1.6TbE, we’re excited to collaborate with so many great technology partners and push Ethernet forward together.” – Sam Kocsis, director of standards and technology, Amphenol
“We’re proud to join Ethernet Alliance’s live multi-vendor interoperability demo, showcasing our cutting-edge Network Master™ Pro MT1040A. With advanced capabilities such as 400G ZR, Open ZR+, OpenROADM, and Dual 400GbE, our solutions drive the future of high-performance networking. This initiative underscores our leadership in interoperability, innovation, and industry collaboration.” – Shu Zhuang, senior product marketing manager, Anritsu
“As AI workloads grow in complexity and size, the Ethernet Alliance multi-vendor interoperability activities ensure that network infrastructure investments continue to meet evolving latency, performance, and energy efficiency requirements. Cisco is showcasing its portfolio of new Silicon One routing and switching platforms and optics for front-end and back-end AI networks, including versatile connectivity options across high-speed 400G and 800G with QSFP-DD, OSFP, LPO and ZR interconnects.” – Guru Shenoy, SVP, product management, provider connectivity, Cisco
“It’s an honor to be part of the Ethernet Alliance interop demo once again, collaborating with other top industry players to demonstrate state-of-the-art optical and electrical testing solutions. EXFO’s industry-leading solutions enable fast, reliable network build-outs, while our focus on transceiver validation including 800G/1.6T, plus coherent optics, high-speed testing and AI technology applications – Autonegotiation, Link Training, LPO testing, and liquid cooling – ensures that we remain at the forefront of emerging technologies.” – Anabel Alarcon, product line manager, EXFO; and Ethernet Alliance high-speed tech lead
“The Ethernet ecosystem, with varied stakeholders, are increasingly reliant on leading edge optical communication technologies to ensure reliable transmission of multimedia traffic. The Hyperscalers, Enterprise and Co-location data centers, and telecom enterprises are facing increasing demand to support HPC/AI/ML workloads, which requires energy efficiency to support environmental and sustainability goals. Formerica OptoElectronics, Inc. is pleased to showcase its latest Optical Connectivity solutions with energy saving technologies, such as LPO and immersion liquid cooling, to support the Ethernet Alliance here at OFC ‘25.” – Peter Liu, general manager, Formerica OptoElectronics, Inc.
“Hyper Photonix is thrilled to make our fourth appearance in a prestigious Ethernet Alliance interoperability demonstration, this time at OFC 2025 in San Francisco. This premier event unites a wide range of network and test equipment manufacturers to promote the continuously evolving Ethernet standard, including our latest innovations in Hyper Silicon™ photonics 800G and 400G Linear Pluggable Optics. Indeed, it’s an honor and a pleasure to collaborate with so many industry partners dedicated to this common goal – the advancement and rapid deployment of Ethernet networking technology.” – Henry Plaessmann, senior director of sales & business development, Hyper Photonix
“Juniper Networks is a proud and active member of Ethernet Alliance. As an industry leader in automated, scalable, and sustainable network and data center solutions, we prioritize collaboration and interoperability in community-led, standards-based activities to drive meaningful and lasting innovation. This year, we’ll demonstrate how Juniper’s optimized portfolio of 100G/400G/800G platforms and IPoDWDM solutions enables service provider, enterprise, and cloud operators to thrive in the AI-Native era. We are honored to work alongside fellow industry experts to advance Ethernet technologies and IP solutions.” – Julius Francis, senior director service provider & cloud portfolio marketing, Juniper Networks
“AI advancements are driving significant changes in data centers, necessitating faster and more efficient interconnects. AI workloads require rearchitecting networks to support new performance and scalability requirements and will require new testing approaches. Keysight is excited to participate in the Ethernet Alliance booth at OFC 2025, showcasing support for a wide range of interconnect, including Linear Pluggable Optics (LPOs) and RDMA over converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCEv2). Both are crucial for high-performance, low latency networking, and modern data center architectures.” – Ram Periakaruppan, vice president and general manager, network test and security solutions, Keysight
“Spirent is proud to continue its participation in the Ethernet Alliance interoperability demonstration at OFC 2025. As AI-driven workloads push networks to new limits, demand for high-speed, low-latency connectivity is surging. The adoption of 800G and emergence of 1.6T are reshaping data center and cloud architectures, requiring real-time data processing, distributed AI inference, and lossless transport. With decades of Ethernet testing expertise, Spirent is demonstrating cutting-edge solutions to validate reliability, scalability, and AI-readiness, ensuring networks can support massive data volumes, low-jitter transmission, and seamless workload distribution.” – Aniket Khosla, vice president of wireline product management, Spirent
“Data center bandwidth demands are increasing at an unprecedented rate, driven by the need for efficient and reliable data processing. As active contributors to the Ethernet Alliance, we are dedicated to developing best-in-class, high-speed, and power-efficient IP solutions. Adopted by multiple customers, our 1.6T and 800G Ethernet IP solutions offer designers the wide ecosystem interoperability and high-performance required to support the next generation of AI workloads.” – Neeraj Paliwal, senior vice president of IP product management, Synopsys
“Ethernet continues to thrive in the age of AI where interconnect products from TE Connectivity (TE) make connections possible. From within-chassis, chassis-to-chassis, and rack-to-rack, TE’s portfolio of electrical and optical connectivity solutions keep data packets flowing. Through the Ethernet Alliance, TE demonstrates interoperability at data rates of 800G and 400G while looking forward to 1.6T. Whether in data centers, enterprises, or far-flung corners of the globe, the cross-generational resilience of Ethernet demonstrates it is here to stay.” – Matthew Ho, principal system architect, TE Connectivity
“Teledyne LeCroy Xena will once again be part of the Ethernet Alliance stand at OFC25, helping demonstrate solutions to the challenges our customers face like the advanced congestion control needed for demanding AI infrastructure/applications; FEC error injection and Signal Integrity View (SIV); and in-depth analysis of Auto-Negotiation and Link Training (AN/LT). Teledyne LeCroy is committed to providing cost-effective traffic generation, network emulation and protocol analyzer solutions – for all speeds. And with 112G SerDes PAM4 now mature, interest in the new 1.6Tbps 224G SerDes is surging with vendors eager to be first to market.” – Nick Kriczky, VP of products and storage, Teledyne LeCroy
“As a continued partner in Ethernet Alliance’s live OFC multi-vendor interoperability demonstration, VeEX remains dedicated to advancing Ethernet testing solutions. Our continued commitment to 400G/800G technologies has driven successful product development, including 800G OSFP and 800G breakout solutions for the RXT and MPA platforms. The new RXT-6811 module combines native OSFP (800G) and QSFPDD (400G/800G) interfaces in one field-suitable unit. For R&D and production environments, the new MPA MPM-HD-822 module, combined with the MPM-HD-802 module, expands OSFP port counts and QSFPDD interfaces. Meanwhile, the RXT-6802 continues to add support for the latest 800G breakout test modes for seamless network deployments.” – Keith Cole, VP product marketing, NEMs, VeEX
“We’re excited to join our fellow Ethernet Alliance members at OFC 2025, where we’ll gain insights into the current state of our ecosystem, overcome challenges as a team, and share in our combined success driving the future of Ethernet. The interoperable demonstration that can be viewed at the Ethernet Alliance booth reflects the power of true collaboration. As the industry leader in test fixtures, Wilder Technologies delivers essential tools for every phase of interconnect development, debugging, and validation. This year at OFC, we’re excited to showcase our industry leading Module Compliance and Host Compliance test fixtures.” – Tim Brackett, director, technical sales, Wilder Technologies
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