At the recent OIF 448G Workshop in Santa Clara, Nathan Tracy, Systems Architect at TE Connectivity, underscored the company’s leadership in enabling next-generation AI infrastructure through advanced channel modeling and analysis. TE is contributing critical research and practical evaluations of electrical channels essential for 448 Gbps signaling—a foundational requirement as the industry scales to support data-intensive AI applications.
Tracy emphasized that despite innovations in optics and compute architectures, the physical realities of signal propagation remain unchanged: electrons must still travel across interconnects, and their performance hinges on well-characterized channels. “The equipment can’t get smaller, but the electrons still have to get from point A to point B,” Tracy noted. TE’s contributions to the workshop include detailed analysis of next-generation interconnects, shared with the OIF community and validated by ecosystem partners. These efforts aim to help define the practical limits and opportunities of high-speed interconnects at 448G.
• TE Connectivity is contributing channel models and performance analysis for 448 Gbps electrical links at the OIF 448G workshop.
• Next-generation interconnects and their impact on signaling performance are central to TE’s research and presentations.
• Accurate channel modeling is critical to enable viable, power-efficient AI networking infrastructure.
• TE collaborates with ecosystem partners to validate and extend its modeling through shared data analysis.
“This is a great opportunity for TE to help lead the industry and bring our technology forward,” said Nathan Tracy. “The starting point is always the channels—we’re proud to help define what’s practical as the industry moves to 448G.”
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