Networking for AI: Scaling Up, Out, and for the Future presented by Meta

Presenter: Omar Baldonado — Senior Director, Network Infrastructure, [Meta](../../articles/Meta.md) Event: 2025 OCP Global Summit — Executive Sessions Date: 2025-10-23 Source: YouTube

Overview

Omar Baldonado, Senior Director of Network Infrastructure at Meta, presents Meta's AI networking strategy covering the full networking stack from global submarine cables through scale-out and scale-up. He announces the Non-Scheduled Fabric (NSF) now in production for gigawatt-scale clusters, unveils the Minipack3N switch based on [NVIDIA](../../articles/NVIDIA.md)'s Spectrum-4 ASIC managed via FBOSS, and co-founds the Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking initiative (ESUN) within the Open Compute Project with 12 industry partners.