Drut launches 2500 product series with CPO for AI datacentres
The company says its new series harnesses advanced photonic technology to augment co-packaged optics, and addresses critical challenges including latency, resource utilisation optimisation, physical locality constraints, and improved security
Drut Technologies, a company focusing on photonic datacentre solutions, has announced the launch of its 2500 product series. The company describes this series as a game-changing solution that catapults AI datacentres into a new era of reconfigurability, efficiency and performance.
According to Drut, the 2500 series consists of a high-density resource chassis, a photonic fabric interface card compatible with off-the-shelf servers, combined with the company’s existing software and hardware allowing customers to build AI datacentre computing clusters with a precise set of resources geared towards the ever-changing needs of modern AI/ML workloads.
The 2500 products incorporate the use of co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, which significantly improves end-point port density, offering new options for GPU connectivity. The 2500 product series is one of the first commercially available solutions to make use of CPO technology, Drut adds.
The company says that customers gain a competitive edge through the first-ever dynamic infrastructure system, resource optimisation, and future-proof flexibility. The 2500 series demolishes vendor lock-in, embracing openness and seamless ecosystem integration, adds Drut, and redefines how precision engineering can deliver maximum utilisation, turning AI infrastructure into a strategic asset.
Drut highlights that the product line includes the Photonic Resource Unit PRU 2500 – a high-density, high-performance PCIe Gen 5-based resource chassis – and the Fabric Interface Card FIC 2500 – a next-generation photonic fabric card that accelerates application workloads using PCIe remoting technology.
“The FIC 2500 is the foundation of our photonic fabric solution,” explained Jitender Miglani, president and founder of Drut. “It enables direct, low-latency connections between resources, dramatically simplifying datacentre complexity while boosting performance. With the FIC 2500, servers can be connected to a photonic fabric using 1.6 or 3.2T of fabric side bandwidth per FIC 2500.”
