IREN and BE Networks accelerate large-scale AI factory deployment using Nvidia DSX Air interconnect technology.

BE Networks and IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN), announced a partnership to leverage NVIDIA DSX Air to simulate and validate the network architecture supporting IREN's upcoming deployment of more than 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. The initiative will enable both companies to utilize a production-representative digital twin of IREN's AI cloud environment before the physical infrastructure is deployed. Using NVIDIA DSX Air, the companies can model the behavior of large-scale GPU clusters, validate network topologies, test automation workflows, rehearse changes and identify issues before they impact production systems.

AI infrastructure performance depends on far more than compute availability, and factors like network design, provisioning accuracy, policy validation and operational readiness directly affect GPU utilization, workload performance and time-to-compute. NVIDIA DSX Air is a platform that logically simulates a full AI factory ecosystem of NVIDIA and partner technology to simplify and accelerate complex AI deployments, providing a high-fidelity simulation of NVIDIA AI compute, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet and NVIDIA NVLink scale-up networking. NVIDIA DSX Air gives infrastructure teams the ability to simulate these complex environments in advance, including compute, networking, storage, orchestration and security layers.

"AI cloud infrastructure at this scale requires extreme precision," said Denis Skrinnikoff, CTO of IREN. "By combining NVIDIA DSX Air with BE Networks' automation expertise, we can validate critical design and operational decisions before deployment, reduce integration risk and bring customer capacity online with greater confidence." Amir Elbaz, CEO & Founder of BE Networks, noted that "Large GPU clusters introduce a level of network complexity that traditional lab environments cannot match. NVIDIA DSX Air gives us a virtual environment to prove the design, while Verity helps automate the path from validated intent to production-ready infrastructure." Gilad Shainer, Senior VP of Networking at NVIDIA, added, "AI factories are among the most complex systems ever built, and simulation is becoming essential to deploying them at speed and scale. With NVIDIA DSX Air, organizations can create digital twins of their infrastructure, validating infrastructure designs in weeks instead of months, and validating and deploying software in days instead of weeks."

BE Networks will support the initiative with its Verity automation and orchestration platform, helping IREN translate validated designs into repeatable deployment workflows across Day 0 design, Day 1 turn-up and Day 2 operations. The partnership exemplifies a modern deployment model for AI cloud infrastructure: simulate first, validate at scale, automate the rollout and deploy with confidence.