Voyant Photonics to Develop Chip-Scale Optical Switching for AI Data Centers

Voyant Photonics, a leader in silicon photonics, announced plans to develop a chip-scale optical circuit switching (OCS) engine for AI data center networks. This technology aims to address critical data movement bottlenecks in rapidly expanding AI clusters by reducing reliance on optical-electrical-optical conversions and enabling dynamic network reconfiguration for changing AI workloads. The company plans to provide this OCS engine as a building block for optical networking companies.