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Network World · United States · Ultra Ethernet 1.0 turns commodity Ethernet into an AI back-end fabric
Reports the UEC's 2026 priorities, chiefly Programmable Congestion Management, letting anyone code a congestion algorithm in a standard language that runs on any UE-compliant NIC, and frames the year as Ethernet groups racing bandwidth and AI demand against InfiniBand and proprietary fabrics.
“The 2026 priority is Programmable Congestion Management: code a congestion algorithm once in a standard language and run it on any UE-compliant NIC.”