Keysight Technologies, Inc. revealed a whole new range of scale, up validation solutions specifically designed to cater to the needs of the burgeoning data center infrastructures of artificial intelligence (AI). Aiming to help the operators deal with the limitations on bandwidth, the solutions help to lower the latency and increase the interoperability of the tightly packed computing environments, while at the same time the portfolio is compatible with both new and mature high, speed interconnect standards.
Ensuring that the different components can communicate flawlessly has become a vital issue not only for the performance of the system but also for the management of the power consumption, deeply challenged when the usage of the AI keeps on growing in the enterprise and hyperscale data centers. With this new product family launch, Keysight wants to make the deployment of AI infrastructure, advanced, high, performing, and energy, efficient in one go.
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Driving Reliable, Scalable AI Infrastructure Validation
The expanded portfolio includes five key offerings that address essential aspects of interconnect validation in AI environments:
• Receiver Conformance Test Software for UALink 200G
This software accelerates validation of UALink™ 200 Gb/s interfaces, simplifying stressed signal calibration and providing comprehensive measurement coverage for faster, dependable conformance testing when integrated with Keysight’s M8050A High-Performance BERT and Infiniium UXR real-time oscilloscope.
• PCIe 7.0 Transmitter Test Solution
To meet the increasing bandwidth demands of next-generation AI workloads, this solution enables full PCIe 7.0 BASE specification compliance testing at speeds up to 128 GT/s, helping reduce integration risk for future AI accelerators and network devices.
• PCIe 6.0 Protocol Compliance Test Suite
Built on Keysight’s established PCIe 6.0 protocol platform, this suite supports end-to-end link and transaction layer validation at speeds up to 64 GT/s. It combines advanced exerciser and analyzer hardware with automated execution and clear pass/fail reporting to shorten debug cycles.
• CXL 3 Protocol Exerciser and Analyzer Test Solution
With AI workloads pushing memory demands higher, the CXL 3 solution enables validation of coherent memory pooling across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, improving resource utilization in disaggregated compute architectures.
• PCIe 5.0 Protocol Link and Transaction Compliance Solution (PCI-SIG Certified)
Certified by PCI-SIG for PCIe 5.0 link and transaction layer testing, this automated compliance solution supports endpoint and retimer devices while reinforcing standards-based interoperability early in the validation process.
Industry Insights and Future Demonstrations
Dr. Joachim Peerlings, Vice President and General Manager of Network and Datacenter Solutions at Keysight, emphasized the urgency of future-ready validation: “As AI demand outpaces how quickly operators can bring power and fiber online, the real hurdle is scaling high bandwidth, low latency interconnects without sacrificing efficiency or interoperability. Keysight’s scale-up solutions help the industry validate performance, energy efficiency, and reliability across standards before deployment.”
