This system is engineered to cool up to 80% of the system's power, a substantial improvement over traditional air-cooling methods. The liquid cooling targets three primary components within the switch, ensuring optimal thermal management for the most heat-intensive parts of the. Cisco is actively innovating in direct-to-chip liquid cooling for high-performance switches, laying the groundwork for solutions that will enable seamless and scalable AI at unprecedented densities. Today's rack switches are rapidly approaching their thermal limits with the jump to 400G, 800G, and. In 2024, NVIDIA launched the NVL72/NVL36 solutions, further increasing the demand for constructing fully liquid-cooled data centers. In the data center field, the two liquid cooling methods in large-scale use are cold plate cooling and immersion cooling. Together with its world-leading digital infrastructure partners, Global Switch was the first to bring many of these.
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