All-Optical Switching
Enhances Performance
for AI Workloads
Our Technology
The result of over 10 years of research into silicon photonics: Salience Labs’ Optical Switch technology is built for AI. We focus on compatibility, reliability and manufacturability.
Advantages of Optical Circuit Switches
Latency
Greatly reduced networking latency improves interactivity.
Highly Deterministic
Optical crossbar eliminates network tail latencies.
Lowers Power Consumption
Reduced by up to 8x, eliminating power-hungry optical transceivers and driving down OPEX.
Reliability Improvement
Silicon Photonics is inherently reliable due to its solid-state technology.
High Speed Interfaces
Supports a variety of data rates from 10 Gbps NRZ to 200G (100 Gbaud PAM4).
Future-Proofed Networks
Flexible support for the new and next generations of interfaces, across the network.
Lowers Cost
All-Optical Switching removes expensive optical transceivers from the network, significantly reducing CAPEX.
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Learn MoreSalience vs. OEO vs. 3D MEMS
Category
Salience OCS
Electrical Switch
3D MEMS Optical
Latency
<10 ns
450-650 ns
<10 ns
Power
<1 W per port
8 W per port
<1 W per port
Reconfiguration
<300 µs
n/a
>1 ms
Reliability
Excellent
Very Good
Average
Determinism
Excellent
Poor
Excellent
Cost
Excellent
Average
Poor
Form Factor
Excellent
Excellent
Poor