#  The Network Defines the Data Center
Next-generation networking for high-performance, scalable, and secure AI-driven data centers

Introduction
##  Networking for the Era of AI
AI data centers require accelerated network performance for retrieval-augmented generation \(RAG\), model training, and inferencing. NVIDIA networking ensures the highest efficiency and lowest latency data transfers necessary for today’s AI use cases.
##  Networking Purpose-Built for AI
NVIDIA designs networking for AI platforms with advanced innovations to ensure top AI performance. Explore the technologies driving the future of AI.
[Read the Whitepaper  ](https://nvdam.widen.net/s/bvpmlkbgzt/networking-overall-whitepaper-networking-for-ai-2911204)
![ An image of a switch chip with many silicon photonics modules co-located on the same chip package. ](https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/networking/networking-cpo-reference/cpo-bbm-d.jpg)
##  New Co-Packaged Silicon Photonic Networking Switches to Scale to Millions of GPUs, Multi-Site AI Factories
###  Technology
##  The Innovations of NVIDIA Networking
Explore accelerated networking—from mainstream enterprise servers to high-performance supercomputers.
#####  Accelerated Ethernet Switching for AI and the Cloud
The NVIDIA Spectrum™ networking platform leads the industry in Ethernet performance, availability, and ease of use across a wide range of applications—including cloud computing, data storage, AI, and more.
[Learn About Ethernet Solutions  ](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/ethernet/) [Learn About NVIDIA Spectrum-X  ](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/spectrumx/)
#####  InfiniBand for AI and Scientific Computing
The NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand architecture gives AI developers and scientific researchers the fastest networking performance available to take on the world’s most challenging problems.
[Learn About InfiniBand Solutions ](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/infiniband/) [Learn About NVIDIA Quantum-X800  ](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/infiniband/quantum-x800/)
#####  A New Class of Network Accelerators
The NVIDIA® BlueField® networking platform speeds up data center infrastructure workloads, transforming traditional computing environments into efficient, high-performance, secure, and sustainable data centers, from cloud to edge.
[Learn About DPUs and SuperNICs  ](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/data-processing-unit/) [Learn About NVIDIA DOCA  ](https://developer.nvidia.com/networking/doca)
###  Benefits
##  Accelerated Networking for Modern AI
#####  Performance
Modern AI workloads operate at data center scale, relying heavily on fast, efficient connectivity between GPU servers. NVIDIA accelerated networking solutions create the secure, robust, and high-performance infrastructure necessary for the next wave of accelerated computing and AI.
#####  Security and Visibility
The need for data is driving an increasingly distributed and complex network environment, making data visualization and isolation essential security functionalities for every data center.
NVIDIA networking solutions enhance security, simplify data center automation, and provide complete visibility into your network.
#####  Smart Offloads
Whether accelerating applications with InfiniBand or RDMA over Converged Ethernet \(RoCE\), or isolating key workloads via NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, our software-defined, hardware-accelerated offerings enable you to dedicate your compute and storage resources to applications, not network management.
###  News
##  Stay Up to Date on the Latest in Networking
#####  NVIDIA Announces New Co-Packaged Silicon Photonic Networking Switches
Achieve 3x energy savings and 10x resilience to scale to millions-of-GPUs, multi-site AI factories.
[Read Press Release  ](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-spectrum-x-co-packaged-optics-networking-switches-ai-factories)
#####  NVIDIA Launches Blackwell Ultra Platform to Pave Way for Age of AI Reasoning
NVIDIA Quantum-X800 and Spectrum-X networking provides enhanced networking for AI infrastructure.
[Read the Press Release  ](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-ultra-ai-factory-platform-paves-way-for-age-of-ai-reasoning)
#####  NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI
The NVIDIA AI Data Platform accelerates enterprise storage to generate insights in real time.
[Read the Press Release  ](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-storage-industry-leaders-unveil-new-class-of-enterprise-infrastructure-for-the-age-of-ai)
#####  Leading Partners Adopt NVIDIA Cybersecurity AI to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure
The NVIDIA cybersecurity AI platform integrates NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and NVIDIA Morpheus software framework to power next-generation cyber defenses from Armis, Check Point, Crowdstrike, Deloitte, and WWT.
[Read the Blog  ](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/cybersecurity-ai-critical-infrastructure/)
###  Resources
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