Cerio's Rockport Ethernet Fabric moves packet switching into endpoint cards connected through a passive optical SHFL interconnect. NC1225 cards provide twelve 25 Gbps fabric links and multiple paths, while the host interface is 100 Gbps. rNOS handles discovery and routing and ANM supports monitoring. A Queen's University/Sandia study demonstrates path-aware MPI integration; application performance depends on topology and communication software.
Technical detail
Core features
FPGA-based switching distributed across NC1225 endpoint cards
Passive SHFL optical interconnect with twelve 25 Gbps fabric links per node
Published path-aware MPI partitioned-communication research
Distributed switching
Passive optical interconnect
Ethernet fabric
MPI
HPC
Use & integration
Recorded applications
HPC cluster communication
Distributed simulation workloads
Data-centre AI workload infrastructure
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Documented commercial fabric with published experimental MPI integration; research benchmark results apply to the tested middleware and topology.
Commercial availability
Discuss fabric sizing, supported server interfaces, middleware and lifecycle support with Cerio. The Ethernet fabric is distinct from Cerio's newer PCIe resource-composition platform.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
The publicly described High-performance optical networking offering may be relevant to monitoring or remote-operation use cases; this is a derived mapping for reviewer assessment.
This is a reviewed public-source assessment. It is not procurement eligibility, endorsement, customer interest, or classified demand.
Original sources 5 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · name
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · core features
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · capability type
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · summary
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Supports: Mission area · Autonomous Patrol and Monitoring
Rockport Ethernet Fabric distributes switching into FPGA-equipped NC1225 endpoint cards. Cerio specifies twelve 25 Gbps optical links per node, eight optimized paths, passive SHFL optical interconnect and rNOS discovery/routing, with ANM monitoring. The 300 Gbps fabric figure is not a single host-port rate or a demonstrated application throughput guarantee.
Queen’s University and Sandia researchers evaluated path-aware MPI partitioned communication on Cerio Rockport Ethernet Fabric in a 2025 paper. Their implementation uses network-path selection and modified communication middleware; measured collective/LLM results belong to that experimental configuration.
Supports: Capability · summary
Queen’s University and Sandia researchers evaluated path-aware MPI partitioned communication on Cerio Rockport Ethernet Fabric in a 2025 paper. Their implementation uses network-path selection and modified communication middleware; measured collective/LLM results belong to that experimental configuration.
Cerio Rockport HPC reference architecture describes endpoint-based switching and passive optical SHFL interconnect with host-facing 100 Gbps bandwidth and 12 by 25 Gbps fabric links. Software stack and node topology are part of integration; aggregate fabric capacity is not application bandwidth.
Supports: Capability · summary
Cerio Rockport HPC reference architecture describes endpoint-based switching and passive optical SHFL interconnect with host-facing 100 Gbps bandwidth and 12 by 25 Gbps fabric links. Software stack and node topology are part of integration; aggregate fabric capacity is not application bandwidth.
Cerio identifies itself as a trade name of Rockport Networks Inc. and describes the Rockport distributed-switching architecture as the foundation for its current composable-infrastructure platform. The current Ethernet fabric and newer PCIe resource composition are related but distinct product scopes.
The official capability material supports the named High-performance optical networking offering and the bounded operational description prepared for reviewer consideration.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
Queen’s University and Sandia researchers evaluated path-aware MPI partitioned communication on Cerio Rockport Ethernet Fabric in a 2025 paper. Their implementation uses network-path selection and modified communication middleware; measured collective/LLM results belong to that experimental configuration.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
Cerio Rockport HPC reference architecture describes endpoint-based switching and passive optical SHFL interconnect with host-facing 100 Gbps bandwidth and 12 by 25 Gbps fabric links. Software stack and node topology are part of integration; aggregate fabric capacity is not application bandwidth.
Supports: Capability · core features
Cerio Rockport HPC reference architecture describes endpoint-based switching and passive optical SHFL interconnect with host-facing 100 Gbps bandwidth and 12 by 25 Gbps fabric links. Software stack and node topology are part of integration; aggregate fabric capacity is not application bandwidth.
Supports: Capability · maturity
Cerio Rockport HPC reference architecture describes endpoint-based switching and passive optical SHFL interconnect with host-facing 100 Gbps bandwidth and 12 by 25 Gbps fabric links. Software stack and node topology are part of integration; aggregate fabric capacity is not application bandwidth.
