Global Purpose-built DCI Forecast is an market landscape report that covers the AI and cloud ecosystem and its impact on the DCI market. The report spans AI use cases to the latest DCI network trends.

Executive summary: AI fueling next wave of DCI

Omdia had the opportunity to speak with Dave Ward, the new chief technology and product officer (CTPO) of Lumen Technologies (Lumen). Ward opened the discussion with the following: “AI and the cloud are driving the largest expansion of networks in our lifetime.”

The AI economy will take on the mantle of the driving force behind data center interconnect (DCI). Enterprises have lakes and oceans of data. Often, an enterprise’s data lake and the AI training center of choice physically reside in different locations (e.g., across town or across the country). This means a lot of data needs to be moved, potentially up to all the data ever created by a major company. Ward noted the following:

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