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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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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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