Meta Networking at the 2026 OCP Global Summit: Open Innovation for Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and Scale-Across AI Networks
At the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, Meta shared the networking innovations that are directly supporting our latest AI models,…
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Meta presented networking infrastructure designed to support its latest AI models at the 2026 Open Compute Project Global Summit. The company introduced IcePack, its first liquid-cooled network rack, and IceCube, a 102.4 terabit switch platform featuring 128 ports of 800-gigabit connectivity. These systems use Broadcom Tomahawk 6C and NVIDIA Spectrum-6 switch variants to handle traffic for models including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, as well as Meta's Prometheus cluster.
Meta also unveiled Flattened Planar Fabric, a multiplane backend architecture that alters how graphics processors connect to network infrastructure. The company described this fabric as a fundamental redesign of GPU-to-network connectivity for large-scale deployments.
Meta released MetaRoCE as an open-source AI transport protocol. The infrastructure components were presented as part of Meta's broader effort to share networking innovations through the Open Compute Project framework.
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At the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, Meta shared the networking innovations that are directly supporting our latest AI models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, and our gigawatt-scale Prometheus cluster. Highlights IcePack & IceCube: Meta’s first liquid-cooled network rack with 102.4T switch blades (128×800G, Broadcom Tomahawk 6C and NVIDIA Spectrum-6 variants), running..
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