White Paper|18 Mar 2025

Energy Optimized and Scalable Breakout Architecture for your Data Centers

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As data centers require more compute capability and higher network speeds, breakout architectures offer significant energy optimization. This white paper by Cisco, Panduit, and Keysight shows that 400G breakout architectures can achieve 54.5% power savings over traditional 100G Top of Rack deployments.

The paper covers:

· How ASIC growth and switch port density promote breakout architectures
· Theoretical and real-world testing validating energy savings
· Best practices for implementing breakout architectures, including breakout cassettes and layouts
· Tools to simplify management

Explore this white paper to see how breakout architectures enhance energy efficiency and future-proof data centers.

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