Name: 53 Years of Ethernet: Evolving With Open Standards for AI Infrastructure - Kapil Mehta, Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited
Start: 2026-06-17T16:25:00+0530
End: 2026-06-17T17:05:00+0530

16-17 June, 2026
Mumbai, India
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53 Years of Ethernet: Evolving With Open Standards for AI Infrastructure - Kapil Mehta, Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST

205 AB (Second Floor)

The rapid growth of AI data centres is placing unprecedented demands on Ethernet, pushing the 53 year old technology beyond its legacy of best effort delivery. While Ethernet has continuously evolved, modern AI workloads introduce unique challenges such as RDMA driven traffic patterns, network congestion, and the need for lossless, ultra-low latency communication. These demands are critical across both scale-up and scale-out AI fabrics, which must support high-throughput training and latency-sensitive distributed inference between tightly coupled GPUs or xPUs.

This session explores how the ecosystem is addressing these challenges, highlighting key advances in open standards including:

The Ultra Ethernet Transport (UET) protocol from the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation project.
The SUE-T protocol associated with the UA Link industry initiative.
The Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) work-stream within the Open Compute Project (OCP).

Open collaboration is reinventing Ethernet as the scalable, interoperable backbone for the next generation of computing.

Speakers

Kapil Mehta

Technical Leader, Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited

Kapil Mehta is a Technical Leader at Cisco with over 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale Service Provider and Enterprise networks. He holds a Masters in Networks Technology & Management and multiple expert-level certifications, including CCDE & CCIE.
A recognized industry voice, he has spoken at Cisco Live USA on AI Data Centre Technologies and new innovations Ultra Ethernet standard. He is passionate about the evolution of networking to meet next-generation demands... Read More →

Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:25pm - 5:05pm IST
205 AB (Second Floor)

Next Gen Open Technologies and Vertical Market Enablers

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

Open Source Summit India 2026

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