Upscale
Executive perspectives from Upscale across NextGenInfra's event and research showcases.
4 video interviews · 2025–2026
AI Data Centers Need Purpose-Built Networks
- AI workloads need deterministic, AI-specific networking rather than adapted general-purpose gear
- Upscale co-designs ASIC, systems, and software while maintaining openness
Abstract
In this director's cut video, Aravind Srikumar, SVP of Product at Upscale, presents the company's mission to deliver AI-specific networking solutions. Upscale differentiates through co-design optimization of ASIC, systems, and software to deliver deterministic performance for AI workloads while maintaining openness.
AI Data Centers Need Purpose-Built Networks
- AI workloads demand completely lossless, synchronized networks
- Purpose-built silicon, systems, and software for scale-up and scale-out — not adapted general-purpose infrastructure
Abstract
Aravind Srikumar, SVP, Product at Upscale, explains how AI workloads require completely lossless, synchronized networks. He shares how Upscale delivers AI-specific networking silicon, systems, and software purpose-built for both scale-up and scale-out environments, rather than adapting general-purpose infrastructure.
Uniting Scale-Up and Scale-Out in One Fabric
- Token Fabric is Upscale's open standards-based fabric that unites scale-up and scale-out into one operational domain with a single software and operating model.
- Unifying the fabric gives customers more control, visibility and resiliency, tackling the network bottlenecks that keep AI accelerators below peak utilization.
- No single company can build the future of AI alone — Upscale partners with NVIDIA on scale-out and works across ASIC and optics form factors to push heterogeneity from silicon to software.
Abstract
Aravind Srikumar, SVP Product, Marketing & Customer Experience at Upscale, introduces Token Fabric, an open standards-based fabric that unifies scale-up and scale-out domains under one software and operating model to improve control, visibility, resiliency, and AI accelerator utilization, and unveils SkyFabriX with 115 Tbps of throughput today. He calls for industry collaboration and standards-based interoperability from silicon to software, highlighting Upscale's partnership with NVIDIA on scale-out and its role as a strategic engineering partner across ASIC and optics form factors to advance heterogeneous AI.
Open Scale-Up Solutions
- Upscale builds open scale-up solutions using ASICs to interconnect GPUs.
- The approach is standards-based, targeting hyperscalers' compute resource challenges.
Abstract
Aravind Srikumar, SVP of Product at Upscale, discusses how his company develops open scale-up solutions using ASICs to interconnect GPUs, addressing hyperscalers' compute resource challenges through standards-based approaches.