AI infrastructure buildouts are shifting towards a focus on energy efficiency and operational costs, driving the need for increasingly high-performance networks. Discover how the 102.4T Cisco Silicon One G300 network switch delivers the scale, efficiency, and intelligence needed for the next era of AI.

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Cisco announces the Silicon One G300, a 102.4 Tbps network switch designed for AI infrastructure. The chip features 252MB packet buffer for 2.5x better burst absorption, hardware-based path load balancing that's 100,000x faster than software, and supports up to 512 ports of 1.6T Ethernet. Key innovations include Intelligent Collective Networking for 33% higher throughput and 28% faster job completion, plus P4 programmability that enables post-deployment feature updates without hardware replacement. The SDK is available now with systems targeting second half 2026.

Cisco Silicon One G300: The Next Wave of AI Innovation

A total approach to network efficiency and TCO

Cisco Silicon One pushes new boundaries for the AI era