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Keysight Introduces PCIe(R) 7.0 Protocol Test Solution to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Validation TMCnet News [October 12, 2026] | / | Keysight Introduces PCIe(R) 7.0 Protocol Test Solution to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Validation Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today introduced its Protocol Test Solution for PCIe(R) 7.0, an integrated platform that enables engineers to bring up, validate, debug, and verify compliance of next-generation devices and systems at the protocol layer. By combining instant link-up with deep visibility at 128 GT/s, the solution helps development teams identify issues earlier, reduce validation risk, and accelerate the delivery of next generation high-speed PCIe interconnect required for artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261012522078/en/ Keysight scalable Protocol Analyzer solution for PCIe(R) 7.0. As artificial intelligence workloads increase demand for compute and data bandwidth, PCI Express(R) 7.0 provides next generation interconnect performance by doubling the raw data rate to 128 GT/s. PCI Express 7.0 is expected to become the dominate interconnect for rack-scale systems connecting graphics processing units, accelerators, switches, memory, and storage. This performance increase makes link establishment, protocol behavior, and interoperability more difficult to validate across increasingly complex architectures. Reliable link-up is the foundation for meaningful protocol analysis. At the fastest PCIe speeds, engineers need immediate visibility to investigate link training and status state machine (LTSSM) behavior, FLIT-based encoding, protocol errors, and complex transaction layer issues to isolate problems before they lead to redesigns or cause schedule delays. Keysight addresses this challenge with an architecture designed to provide stable and reliable analysis without analyzer tuning, helping teams move from connection to actionable insight faster. The solution combines a full-featured protocol analyzer and exerciser, test platform, and dedicated analysis software. The integrated workflow offers early adopters both a link partner for device bring-up and extensive protocol visibility needed to progress from initial silicon validation through interoperability and compliance testing. Key benefits of the Protocol Test Solution for PCIe 7.0 include: * Accelerates time to first measurement: Advanced signal integrity enables reliable protocol trace capture without analyzer tuning, giving engineers repeatable results and faster insight. * Identifies protocol issues faster: Deep visibility into LTSSM transitions, FLIT-based encoding, protocol errors, and transaction layer packet transactions help teams accelerate debug, isolate root causes, validate reliable operation, and verify compliance to PCI Express specifications. * Reduces early silicon risk: Early collaboration and test availability help teams uncover protocol and interoperability issues sooner, minimizing late-stage rework and shortening development cycles. * Streamlines end-to-end validation: An integrated analyzer, exerciser, test platform, and software environment provides a consistent workflow from bring-up through validation and compliance testing. * Advances AI infrastructure development: Support for rack-level interconnects and backward compatibility helps engineers validate next-generation scale-up architectures while protecting existing test investments and easing migration. Neeraj Paliwal, Senior Vice President, Silicon IP Product Management, Synopsys, said: "Establishing a reliable PCIe 7.0 link at 128 GT/s between production silicon and protocol test equipment is a key interoperability milestone. Validating our silicon-proven Synopsys PCIe 7.0 IP solution with Keysight's protocol solution means customers can commit to their next-generation AI and data center designs with confidence." Dr. Joachim Peerlings, Vice President of Network and Data Center Solutions, Keysight, said: "Successful PCIe 7.0 deployment depends on proven ecosystem interoperability alongside bandwidth advancements. Our collaboration with Synopsys helps customers validate designs earlier, identify issues faster, and gain confidence in the readiness of next-generation silicon and systems. Together, we're accelerating the path from innovation to deployment for AI and data center applications." Keysight will demonstrate the Protocol Test Solution for PCIe 7.0 at OCP Global Summit 2026, October 13-16, 2026, in San Jose, California. Resources * Product page: Keysight Protocol Analyzers Module for PCIe(R) 7.0 * Product page: Keysight Protocol Exercisers x16 for PCIe(R) 7.0 * Product page: Keysight Protocol Test Backplane for PCIe(R) 7.0 * Product page: Keysight Transmitter Test Solution for PCIe(R) 7.0 * Product page: Keysight Receiver Test Application for PCIe(R) 7.0 PCI-SIG(R), PCIe(R), and PCI Express(R) are U.S. registered trademarks and/or service marks of PCI-SIG. About Keysight Technologies Keysight (NYSE: KEYS) serves technology innovators as a mission-critical design enablement partner for the world's most complex engineering challenges. By connecting market-leading design, emulation, and test solutions across the full lifecycle, Keysight helps engineering teams accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and bring new technologies to market faster. Customers across AI infrastructure, communications, industrial automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and general electronics rely on Keysight to bridge virtual design and physical reality, enabling confident decisions earlier. Learn more at www.keysight.com. Keysight scalable Protocol Analyzer solution for PCIe(R) 7.0 Keysight Protocol Exerciser for PCIe(R) 7.0 supports speeds from 2.5 GT/s up to 128 GT/s and lane widths up to x16. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261012522078/en/ [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage] |

Keysight showcases AI Infrastructure Validation advances across Scale-Up, Scale-Out, Scale-Across networks to inference at 2026 OCP. New solutions, large-scale AI workload emulation, multi-vendor interoperability, and end-to-end inference validation demonstrations on show to help accelerate next-generation AI infrastructure Published on 10/09/2026 at 11:01 am EDT Business Wire Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) will showcase a broad portfolio of AI infrastructure validation solutions at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, October 12 - 15. Working with leading industry partners at the event, Keysight will demonstrate how it is helping technology developers, infrastructure providers, hyperscalers, and operators validate increasingly complex AI systems under realistic conditions before deployment. At booth #C83, Keysight will show its latest innovations for validating rapidly evolving AI infrastructure, as the industry moves toward 224G SerDes and 1.6T Ethernet interconnects, open scale-up connectivity, larger scale-out fabrics, scale-across architectures spanning data centers, and increasingly demanding inference workloads. Keysight industry collaborations at OCP 2026 will include joint demonstrations with Alibaba Cloud, Cisco, HPE, and NVIDIA. Ram Periakaruppan, Vice President and General Manager, Network Test & Security Solutions, Keysight, said: "AI infrastructure is evolving from individual components into highly interconnected systems spanning Scale-Up, Scale-Out, Scale-Across, and production inference. At 2026 OCP, we will show how Keysight is helping the industry recreate realistic AI environments before deployment so engineering teams can understand system behavior at scale, identify bottlenecks earlier, and accelerate the transition across design to deployment continuum." Keysight highlights at 2026 OCP will include: * Two new 1.6T Ethernet test platforms: Keysight will show the SERT 1600GE data center switch and edge router test solution, and the AresONE Plus 1600GE platform, the industry's first to deliver eight 1.6T Ethernet ports in a single 2U appliance and provide stateful, realistic AI workload generation with mix-of-collectives emulation. * Open Ethernet Scale-Up interoperability: A demonstration of multi-vendor interoperability of emerging Ethernet Scale-Up technologies, with the first live public demonstration of Link Layer Retry (LLR) running over 200G SerDes-based 1.6T speed. * Scale-Across validation: Demonstrating resiliency and performance validation of RoCEv2 AI workloads across Scale-Across networking, enabling engineering teams to evaluate how latency, congestion, buffering, packet loss, and resiliency affect workload-level performance as AI infrastructure extends across data centers. * Large scale 64x800GE Mix of Collectives emulation: Keysight will emulate 64x800GE NIC and GPU endpoints driving a mix of AI collective workloads across a 2x2 CLOS fabric. The joint showcase enables developers to evaluate fabric utilization, congestion, load distribution, and workload performance under more representative AI traffic before deploying large-scale GPU infrastructure. * Scale-Out validation with MRC/SRv6: Keysight will demonstrate multi-path MRC traffic using SRv6 uSID-based source routing, showcasing resilient path and plane failover, congestion mitigation through packet trimming, and sustained application performance. * Inference scale and performance: Keysight AI Inference Builder will generate realistic inference workloads against a live inference stack while correlating workload performance with compute, GPU, memory, and network telemetry. Keysight will collaborate with industry leaders to jointly demonstrate how realistic workload emulation and system-level validation can help the industry identify issues sooner, evaluate interoperability, and gain confidence in AI infrastructure before deployment. Will Eatherton, SVP Engineering, Data Center and Internet Infrastructure, Cisco, said: "As AI clusters push beyond the power and physical limits of a single data center, scale-across is becoming a critical new dimension of AI networking. This is more than traditional data center interconnect: distributed AI workloads require massive bandwidth, resiliency, and the ability to absorb traffic bursts without compromising application performance. Cisco Silicon One P200 is purpose-built for this transition, combining 51.2 Tbps of bandwidth with deep buffering and Cisco 800G ZR+ coherent pluggable optics help deliver predictable performance as AI workloads extend across data centers. In addition to using real GPU server clusters, our collaboration with Keysight helps validate these architectures under realistic RoCEv2 workloads, congestion, and network conditions. In parallel, a 64x800GE mixed-collective workload demonstration with Cisco Nexus One brings the same workload-level validation to scale-out fabrics, helping customers understand how their AI networks will perform before deploying GPU infrastructure at scale." Throughout the conference, Keysight experts will participate in 2026 OCP speaker sessions, covering AI infrastructure validation, scale-up networking, digital twins, switching, and accelerator validation. Featured speaking sessions include: * AI Infrastructure Validation at Scale - Ram Periakaruppan, Keysight. Monday, October 12, 12:00pm PT | SJCC Concourse Level, Room 211. * Beyond Physical Digital Twins: Why Logical Digital Twins Are Essential for AI Factory Design, Validation, and Operations - Abhijit Lahiri, Keysight, and Avi Alkobi, NVIDIA. Tuesday, October 13, 2:05pm PT | Concourse Level, Room 220B. * Tier 1 Ranking Test: A Vendor-Neutral Framework for Benchmarking Switching ASICs via SAI in SONiC - Manodipto Ghose, Keysight, and Shenglin Zhu, Alibaba. Wednesday, October 14, 8:40am PT | Concourse Level, Room 230A. * Validation Methodologies for ESUN Ecosystem - Manoj Wadekar, Meta, and Venkat Pullela, Keysight. Wednesday, October 14, 8:50am PT | Concourse Level, Room 220B. * Standardizing Ethernet Scale-Up Validation: Test Strategy and Current Progress on LLR/CBFC - Haiyang Zheng, Alibaba Cloud, and Yuanwen (Daisy) Sun, Keysight. Thursday, October 15, 9:45am PT | Concourse Level, Room 210AE. * Cluster-less Validation of AI Accelerator Silicon Under Real Workloads - Matt Bergeron, Meta; Ashutosh Kumar and Cosmin-Nicolae Prunaru, Keysight Technologies. Thursday, October 15, 12:55pm PT | Concourse Level, Room 220B. * AI Infrastructure Month at Keysight About Keysight Technologies Keysight (NYSE: KEYS) serves technology innovators as a mission-critical design enablement partner for the world's most complex engineering challenges. By connecting market-leading design, emulation, and test solutions across the full life cycle, Keysight helps engineering teams accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and bring new technologies to market faster. Customers across AI infrastructure, communications, industrial automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and general electronics rely on Keysight to bridge virtual design and physical reality, enabling confident decisions earlier. Learn more at www.keysight.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261009862016/en/ (C) Business Wire - 2026