This week, we’re returning to the intersection of AI and network transport.
We recently spoke with Lumen Technologies CEO Kate Johnson about how AI is impacting the network, demanding ever-larger pipes for data transport and training. That’s, of course, a boon for a company like Lumen, which has now signed partnership deals with cloud companies and AI pioneers Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Google.
And yet, AI itself is rapidly evolving. Within the next few years, analysts have predicted AI will shift from being mostly training workloads to being mostly inferencing use cases
So, we posed a new version of the question to Zayo chief product officer Bill Long: what happens when AI moves to the edge?
We spoke with Long about what demand looks like now from various players in the market, how the landscape might shift with the rise of inference, and his prediction that a fresh wave of bandwidth demand could catch the industry off guard.
This podcast is written and hosted by Diana Goovaerts. It is edited by Diana Goovaerts and Matt Rickman. Liz Coyne is our executive producer.
To learn more about the topics in this episode:
- The Five Nine: Building a new network - and telco - for AI with Lumen
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/five-nine-building-new-network-and-telco-ai-lumen
- Zayo preps for data center, AI and broadband boom with middle mile focus
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/zayos-designing-connectivity-ramps-middle-mile-highway