Leading Distributed, Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) Routing Platform Vendors Join HiWire™ Consortium to Drive Standardization in DDC Interconnect

DriveNets and UfiSpace join HiWire Consortium Members Credo and Keysight to Standardize Interconnect for DDC Routers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the HiWire Consortium, a non-profit corporation supporting the advancement and adoption of HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs), announced two new Consortium members. The increased membership will help the organization to drive standardization of interconnect for Distributed, Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) routers around the HiWire Active Electrical Cable (AEC) standard.

HiWire Consortium members Credo, DriveNets, UfiSpace, and Keysight collaborated to stand up the first public demonstration of the DDC model as proposed to the Open Compute Project (OCP) by AT&T. The demonstration and a corresponding presentation will be shown at the OCP Virtual Summit, May 12^th – May 15^th. This demo will be showcased in the OCP Virtual Experience Center.

“DriveNets’ Network Cloud customers are seeing great benefits in using HiWire AECs for DDC interconnect both technically and economically,” said Ido Susan, CEO of DriveNets. “We look forward to working with HiWire Consortium toward the proliferation of AECs in DDC applications,” he continued.

“We’re seeing strong interest in HiWire AECs with our DDC switching and routing products from cloud and service provider customers,” said Vincent Ho, CEO of UfiSpace. “Proliferating the HiWire AEC standard via the HiWire Consortium will help accelerate and drive DDC adoption.”

“Teamwork is a key component at the heart of the HiWire Consortium,” said Sheng Huang, President of the HiWire Consortium. “This disaggregated routing demonstration is the just the beginning of the DDC roll out in large scale datacenters and carrier networks.”

About HiWire Consortium

HiWire Consortium is a non-profit corporation supporting the advancement and adoption of HiWire Active Electrical Cables (“AECs”) by facilitating the development of high-quality compatible HiWire AEC devices and promoting end-user demand for HiWire AEC products through increased public awareness. Membership includes Accton, Alpha Networks, Arrcus, Intel, Barefoot, BizLink, Cameo, Canaan, Centec, Chelsio, Credo, Dell EMC, Delta, DriveNets, EDOM Technology, FoxLink, Innovium, Inventec, Juniper, Keysight Technologies, Quanta Computer, QCT, Senao Networks Inc., Spirent, Steligent, UfiSpace, UL, Wistron, WNC, and wiwynn. The organization’s AEC product was featured as part of the first live DDC (Distributed, Disaggregated Chassis) demonstration ever recorded. For more information, please visit www.hiwire.org. Follow HiWire Consortium on LinkedIn and Twitter.