Redefining Scale: Ethernet Networking for AI – Industry Keynote
As AI models grow in complexity and scale, building AI clusters demands a reimagining of compute, memory, and I/O architectures to support fast, flexible, and recursive reasoning. This evolution is no longer confined to a single rack or even a single data center—it spans across entire geographies, interconnecting hundreds of thousands of XPUs.
Meeting these unprecedented demands requires a next-generation networking fabric that can:
- Scale up within and across a few racks, seamlessly connecting a hundred to thousands of XPUs;
- Scale out across entire data centers in a flat, high-performance topology
- Scale across geographically distributed data centers, creating globally unified AI fabrics
In this keynote, Broadcom will showcase:
- Key innovations that unlock this scale—powered by open, standards-based Ethernet;
- The latest advancements in the Ethernet ecosystem to support Scale-up and Scale-out architecture, including product roadmap highlights for in-rack, inter-rack, and inter-DC connectivity.
Hasan Siraj is Vice President, Product Management at Broadcom, where he oversees product
management across the company’s routing, switching & high-performance NIC
portfolio—including Tomahawk, Trident, Jericho and Thor Ultra NIC. Additionally, he drives
Broadcom’s open networking and open-source strategy. He works closely with hyperscalers,
enterprises, service providers, OEMs, and ODMs to build a thriving ecosystem around
Broadcom silicon. Hasan is also facilitating the build-out of some of the world’s largest AI
infrastructure deployments and expanding Broadcom’s merchant silicon into adjacent markets
through strategic partnerships and new go-to-market models. Prior to Broadcom, he led Cisco’s
Enterprise Routing and Switching teams. He holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from
Cornell University and an MBA from The Wharton School.
