SCTE Broadband - Dec 2024

FROM THE INDUSTRY

Preparing for the AI Bandwidth Surge: Futureproofing Enterprise with Highspeed Connectivity

By Dr Thomas King, DE-CIX

Global economies are no longer just built on wealth or commerce, they’re built on data. More specifically, they’re built on the exchange and transfer of data, and the more effective a nation is in this regard, the more prosperous it is likely to be. Data-intensive applications like artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and cloud computing, are demonstrably tied to innovation and an economy’s propensity to grow. That data needs to travel at volume and speed, but is our connectivity infrastructure up to the challenge?

Dr Thomas King, DE-CIX

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Volume 46 No.4 DECEMBER 2024

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