Meta Shares Networking Innovations at the 2026 OCP Global Summit
According to Meta. Meta details its latest data center networking advancements, liquid-cooled network racks, and open-source contributions at the 2026 Open Compute Project Global Summit.
- • Meta showcased IcePack and IceCube, its first liquid-cooled network rack equipped with 102.4T switch blades.
- • The company detailed its Flattened Planar Fabric for scale-out and BAG for scale-across connectivity.
- • Meta, Microsoft, and Alibaba co-led the Open Switch Platform Architecture initiative, submitting its v1.0 spec to OCP.
- • MetaRoCE, Meta's RDMA transport for AI networks, is officially going open source.
Hardware and Infrastructure Highlights
At the 2026 Open Compute Project Global Summit, Meta shared the networking innovations supporting its latest AI models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, alongside its gigawatt-scale Prometheus cluster. Key hardware highlights include IcePack and IceCube, Meta's first liquid-cooled network rack featuring 102.4T switch blades running FBOSS.
Open Ecosystem and Standards
Meta introduced OSPA, a new Open Compute Project initiative co-led by Meta, Microsoft, and Alibaba to standardize the switch platform layer, submitting its v1.0 specification to OCP. Additionally, Meta announced that MetaRoCE, its proprietary RDMA transport for AI networks, is now going open source.
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