The product was unveiled in late February, shortly before MWC Barcelona 2026. It consists of a Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) solution designed to reduce power consumption by up to 70%. Targeted at customers seeking to scale their data centers for new AI workloads, it delivers a capacity of 6.4 Tbps.

Speaking with Convergencia during MWC, Fernando Capella, Ciena’s Country Manager in Brazil and director for the Southern Cone, explained the potential of this launch for “scale up” between servers within the same rack, and “scale out,” that is, between racks.

“The training of LLMs demands ever greater computing power, and processing in turn requires more energy. It is therefore necessary to distribute training across different data centers and increase Data Center Interconnection (DCI). Ciena has been working on solutions for that scenario, of ‘scale across’ between data centers,” he said.

Capella also referred to the work of Ciena’s software unit, Blue Planet, focused on helping operators advance toward autonomous networks with agentic AI. “To have an autonomous network, the deployed infrastructure must provide the necessary information for the relevant layer to make a decision. That infrastructure must understand the commands, with precise visibility of resources. So the first step must be visibility of network resources, followed by defining use cases for testing,” the executive said.