# IPEC Successfully Holds NPO Standards Industry Summit, Aiming to Build a Robust International Standards Ecosystem

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- Published: 2026-09-10T21:40:00+07:00
- Author: Media OutReach

**Key Messages:**

 *  **The NPO Standards Industry Summit brought together global standards and industry
   giants, who reached a consensus on international NPO standards, laying a solid
   foundation for the industry upgrade and large-scale commercial use of NPO.**
 *  **Multiple vendors from countries like China, the US, and Japan held a joint
   exhibition of connectors, NPO modules, and switches, strengthening industry confidence
   in building an open and prosperous NPO ecosystem.**

 PARIS, FRANCE – [Media OutReach Newswire](https://www.media-outreach.com/) – 10
September 2026 – On September 10, the NPO Standards Industry Summit, co-hosted by
IPEC and OIF, was held at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. The
event was attended by top players from across the global industry chain, including
experts from OIF, CAICT, Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, Huawei, Broadcom, SENKO,
Amphenol, and Yamaichi. The summit focused on NPO evolution and international standards
development, with in-depth discussions being held on topics like ecosystem upgrade
and industry chain collaboration. Ultimately, a consensus on international NPO standards
was reached at the summit, laying a solid foundation for the industry upgrade and
large-scale commercial use of NPO.

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 Dr. Zhao Wenyu, Vice Chairman of IPEC and Deputy Director of the Technology and
Standards Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communications 
Technology (CAICT), emphasized: “As SuperPoDs continue to expand in scale, traditional
optical modules are consuming huge amounts of energy, and co-packaged optics (CPO)
faces constraints like a closed industry chain and complex operations and maintenance.
In contrast, near-packaged optics (NPO) – with its excellent energy efficiency, 
a favorable trade-off in port density, and strong compatibility with existing pluggable
ecosystems – is expected to become the preferred solution for SuperPoD interconnect
in the near term, and coexist and evolve alongside CPO and other solutions in the
long term. We call upon stakeholders across industry, academia, research institutions,
and user groups, to join hands in developing NPO standards and driving the NPO ecosystem
to evolve from ‘usable’ to ‘easy-to-use at scale'”.

 Jiang Zhibin, the Optical Network Architect at Tencent, highlighted: “As SuperPoDs
expand in scale and GPUs and switch chips increase their SerDes data rates, optical
interconnect solutions will advance more rapidly towards 6.4T NPO.” Looking ahead,
there is an urgent need to use opto-electronic collaborative design to overcome 
the challenges introduced by advanced packaging processes.

 Dr. Man Jiangwei, Director of the Advanced Opto-Electronics Laboratory at Huawei,
stated: “In exploring the optimal interconnect solution – NPO – for SuperPoDs, Huawei
has launched the industry’s first high-bandwidth 7.2T NPO product and successfully
conducted a demonstration of dynamic transmission at the IPEC exhibition booth. 
Furthermore, with the introduction of key technologies like built-in light sources
and highly-integrated SiPh chips, this NPO product features ‘high bandwidth, high
reliability, and high availability’ while achieving ‘low latency, low power consumption,
and low cost’.”

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 Meanwhile, at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE), the IPEC
booth showcased the latest achievements of the global NPO industry chain, particularly
those from the US, Japan, and China. The display showcased high-density connector
solutions from leading vendors in the US and Japan, as well as the NPO modules of
various capacities developed by multiple Chinese vendors, alongside several NPO 
switches, demonstrating a high level of commercial maturity.

 The success of this summit and exposition marks a milestone for the development
of the global NPO industry. At the summit, a consensus was reached on international
NPO standards and the paths for collaboration between standards organizations and
the industry chain were streamlined, laying a solid foundation for the large-scale
commercial use of NPO. Furthermore, the joint exhibition of industry ecosystem products
has strengthened industry confidence in building an open and prosperous NPO ecosystem.

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