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AI-driven networks create opportunities for network operators. Learn to take advantage of them with Ciena and our solutions for AI infrastructure.

The rise of AI is shifting network demands, with data center interconnect (DCI) capacity becoming crucial to support AI infrastructure growth. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna explains how for network operators, this shift unlocks exciting opportunities to deliver innovative, high-capacity connectivity solutions tailored to the needs of hyperscalers and AI powerhouses.

Ciena’s Waveserver 5 platform powered by proven 800 Gb/s encryption, and Ciena's 8140 powered by 400GE MACsec encryption, leverage open APIs to communicate with an external QKD system, enabling a layered-encryption solution that is highly secure and mathematically proven to provide unconditional security of all critical in-flight data.

AI is redefining the way operators of all kinds design, scale, and operate their networks. Ciena’s Brodie Gage explores how optical innovation and autonomous operations are enabling the global network fabric for the AI era.

The next era of networking is here: 1.6 Tb/s. Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains the technology breakthroughs that made this possible, how this changes networking – and what it means for the industry.

The rapid growth of AI and cloud workloads is fueling data center expansion, but outdated out-of-band (OOB) management architectures are costly, inefficient, and challenged by escalating power and cooling demands. Ciena’s data center out-of-band management (DCOM) replaces legacy OOB systems with a modern, PON-based network. DCOM revolutionizes data center infrastructure management (DCIM) with a streamlined, fiber-based PON solution, simplifying OOB management by centralizing provisioning, optimizing operations, and reducing rack space, power usage, and cooling costs.

Networking for AI will be driven by simplicity, speed, and scale. While legacy transport technologies such as MPLS-TP, RSVP-TE, and LDP have served well in the past, it is Segment Routing (SR) that is key to building scalable transport networks for AI and cloud. Ciena’s Don Jacob discusses how network operators can seamlessly migrate from legacy transport technologies to SR without rip-and-replace of their transport infrastructure.

The escalating cost of real estate is increasingly becoming a factor in the communications industry. Traditionally, the physical location, where infrastructure was installed and housed, was seldom a focal point of strategic consideration. However, the current market dynamics combined with two recent trends are necessitating a shift in perspective.