MRC and SRv6: How Foundational Networking Innovations Are Enabling the Next Generation of AI Supercomputers (cisco.com)
Discover the recent announcement of the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol which achieves full bisection bandwidth and near-perfect uptime across 100,000+ GPUs by building on SRv6 (RFC 8986), a standard Cisco co-authored and has been shipping since 2019. Learn how SRv6's core principles—application-driven programmability, static source-routing for microsecond-level failure recovery, and deterministic path-pinned performance measurement—enabled MRC's success. Looking forward, SRv6's unified data plane positions it as a foundational technology for next-generation AI supercomputers.
May 14, 2026 – News – SRv6