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The Tipping Point: Managing the Cost of Data Center Interconnect in the AI Era

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The Tipping Point: Managing the Cost of Data Center Interconnect in the AI Era

In my previous blog post, I talked about the growing financial burden that AI-driven data growth will place on enterprises. IDC predicts that data generation will grow explosively, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.5% through 2027, which will lead to unprecedented growth in the need for more robust data center interconnect (DCI) solutions by enterprises. Traditionally, enterprises have leased high-capacity circuits from service providers for DCI. These leased circuits are often 10G…

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IP Is Better Than Ever with SRv6 uSID

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IP Is Better Than Ever with SRv6 uSID

IP is the engine behind everything—our favorite streaming services, the global array of IoT sensors connecting people and things, and the workload we access in the cloud. It is the heart of our digital world, connecting us like an invisible and persistent presence in everyday life. Foreseeing IP market demands Over the decades, the industry has introduced additional complexity with numerous layers and extensions to the IP protocol, each designed for a specific use case:…

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Building Simpler, Resilient, and AI-Ready Networks

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Building Simpler, Resilient, and AI-Ready Networks

I sat down with senior leaders from Colt, stc Group, and Swisscom to hear these innovative service providers’ strategies for the delivery of digital experiences in an AI-powered world. We talked about how they are simplifying their networks to meet growing customer demands and how they are embracing assurance, automation, and autonomous networking to transform their operations, ensure the resiliency of their services, and drive new revenue streams. Q: Jason Teller—Yasser, congratulations on the success…

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IP and Optical Convergence: The Architecture Behind High-Performance Broadband

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IP and Optical Convergence: The Architecture Behind High-Performance Broadband

The convergence of IP and optical technologies is making service provider networks more efficient and sustainable to support bandwidth and resource-intensive applications like AI, 4K/8K video, and virtual reality apps. This convergence dramatically simplifies middle and last mile network architectures, reduces CapEx and OpEx, and makes it easier and faster to introduce new services. Middle and last mile revamp Supporting workloads like AI and residential broadband with massive bandwidth and quality of service (QoS) requirements…

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Delivering Resilient Connectivity for AI

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Delivering Resilient Connectivity for AI

Cisco EVP and CPO Jeetu Patel recently shared how service providers and hyperscalers must rethink their architectures to deliver the future of global connectivity in the AI era. As we head to the OFC conference next week, AI transformation will certainly be a hot topic, as it increasingly demands high-speed interconnects between data centers—and within data centers—that only fiber optics can provide. AI is driving a massive surge in data center workloads, with IDC predicting that…

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The Blueprint for AI-Driven Connectivity

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The Blueprint for AI-Driven Connectivity

The internet ecosystem is in constant transition, and with that evolution comes changing dynamics and shifts across the value chain. As a result, these hubs were traditionally confined to a set of larger cities and contained to a small set of facilities within those. While the traditional interconnect model has served its purpose for decades, it is now becoming increasingly outdated. The evolution of distributed, dynamic services is exposing the inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and large failure…

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Bell Canada’s Transformation Journey with Routed Optical Networking

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Bell Canada’s Transformation Journey with Routed Optical Networking

Service providers worldwide are turning to Routed Optical Networking to make their infrastructure simpler and more cost-efficient to operate, fast-track the delivery of new services, and add more capacity to keep up with growing customer demand. It’s a game-changer, completely redefining the economics of networking by lowering TCO by up to 45% and dramatically simplifying operations. I sat down with Marc-André Gilbert, Senior Manager of Transport Planning at Bell Canada, to hear about the company’s…

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Routed Optical Networking Continues to Transform the Industry

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Routed Optical Networking Continues to Transform the Industry

The introduction of Cisco Routed Optical Networking transformed the optical networking industry, breaking a 20+ year multi-layer network architecture and paving the way to a converged  IP+Optical network architecture. With the introduction of pluggable coherent optics just a few short years ago, we asked, “What benefits might result with a new network architecture?” And, the answer was “significant OpEx and CapEx savings results” with what is now known as Routed Optical Networking. Routed Optical Networking…

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