All-Optical Switches for AI Infrastructure

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Salience Labs Secures $125 Million in Series B Funding to Scale Photonic Networking Chips for AI Datacenter Infrastructure     

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October 14, 2026

Salience Labs Secures $125 Million in Series B Funding to Scale Photonic Networking Chips for AI Datacenter Infrastructure     

OXFORD, England – October 14, 2026 – Salience Labs, a leader in photonic chips targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure, today announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed $125 million Series B funding round. The round is led by Bullhound Capital, with… Read More

Salience Labs showcases 64-port OCS at ECOC 2026

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September 20, 2026

Salience Labs showcases 64-port OCS at ECOC 2026

At ECOC Exhibition, September 21–23 in Málaga, Spain, Salience Labs is unveiling its latest All-Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) technology with a demonstration of its 64-port silicon photonic OCS at Stand #2010. In addition to the live demonstration, Max Thurmer, Head of System Architecture, will also take the stage at 11:55… Read More

Salience Labs and Keysight Collaborate to Develop First Optical Circuit Switch Testing Environment

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March 12, 2026

Salience Labs and Keysight Collaborate to Develop First Optical Circuit Switch Testing Environment

Joint solution will be showcased at OFC Conference, demonstrating the value of optical technology for AI workloads… Read More

Built to scale AI

Salience Labs’ all-optical switches target a fundamental bottleneck in AI datacenters: data movement.

Significant investment has been made into optical pluggables and interconnects to enable next generation AI networking. However, for the efficiency and latency gains of optical connectivity to be realised, all-optical switches are required.

Salience Labs has developed fully integrated, silicon photonics based switches. Our switches scale network bandwidth and decrease latency, significantly improving AI workload performance.

Our Product

The OC-32M all-optical switch module eliminates the need for the costly and power-hungry optical transceivers required for today’s electrical switches.

Our Technology

Silicon photonics powers the next generation of All-Optical Switches.

Salience Labs extends the scale-up
domain with optical connectivity.

Lower latency optical switching significantly improves tokens per second per user performance, enabling the interactivity required for next generation AI workloads.

Optical Switches

Changing the Networking Landscape

10ns
20x lower network latency
<1W/port
Up to 8x lower power per port
200Gbit/s
High-speed interface
10x
Lower cost per port

Improving Token Economics

Lower latency optical switching significantly improves Tokens/Sec/User performance, enabling the interactivity required for next-gen workloads.

Future-Proof Your Network

All-Optical interfaces easily scale to higher bandwidths, ensuring a roadmap of increased processing performance across several generations.

High-Volume Manufacturing

Leveraging today's traditional semiconductor manufacturing processes to offer industry leading cost and volume advantages.

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