Broadcom announces milestone in deployment of Co-Packaged Optics tech

Broadcom (AVGO) announced a significant milestone in the deployment of Co-Packaged Optics technology, highlighting one million cumulative 400G equivalent port device hours of flap-free CPO operation at Meta. This achievement underscores the maturity, robustness, and production-readiness of Broadcom’s CPO platform for hyperscale AI applications. Compared to pluggable module solutions, the data highlights that CPO reduces optics power by 65 percent and also demonstrates higher link reliability. CPO technology is a key enabler for next-generation data center architectures, offering unprecedented bandwidth density and power efficiency by tightly integrating optical engines with switch silicon. Ensuring the reliability of this innovative integration has been a key focus for Broadcom and its partners. Testing of Broadcom CPO solutions at Meta has demonstrated one million link hours without a single link flap, validating Broadcom’s engineering excellence and rigorous qualification process. Link flaps, brief connectivity disruptions, are a critical reliability metric in high-performance data center networks. The absence of link flaps in Meta’s high-temperature lab characterization environment highlights the industrial-grade stability and reliability of Broadcom’s CPO implementation.