Scale Up, Scale Out and Scale Across AI and Data Center Infrastructure with Open CPX MSA

The IEEE Ottawa AP/MTT Joint Chapter, and the IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter presents a talk by Matthew Burns, Director, Technical Marketing at Samtec, as part of the Ottawa Signal Integrity and Datacenters Series. Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 12:00-1:00 PM Eastern Time. In person at HUB350, Kanata. Pizza and snacks. Abstract Data Center and AI Scale-up, Scale-out, and Scale-across infrastructures demand both reduced power consumption, cost, and latency and increased bandwidth density, capacity, reliability and scalability. Interchangeability between copper and optical interconnects simplifies system architectures and offers flexibility in scale-up/scale-out/scale-across implementations. Field replaceable CPO solutions are a must for data center and AI scale-up/scale-out/scale-across as well. In this technical presentation, Matthew Burns will detail the Si-Fly® HD 224 Gbps PAM4 CPX Systems supporting electrically pluggable CPC/CPO solutions. An introduction and overview of the newly released Open CPX MSA 1.0 Specification will be included. In addition, Matthew will review the benefits of an interoperable ecosystem of optical engines enabling various data center and AI scale-up/scale-out/scale-across use cases. Potential 400G channel rate system architecture will also be explored.