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AI-driven intelligence
Maximize business value with predictable outcomes, simplified operations, and accelerated AI services
AI is redefining IP networking requirements
AI-driven workloads are placing new demands on IP networks. High-performance IP networking requires a modern and intelligent approach—one that increases agility and flexibility through dynamic routing and automation at scale.
By evolving your IP architecture, you can streamline operations and deliver consistent outcomes across training and inference environments.
Turn AI momentum into a
competitive advantage
Long-term growth and AI services require a modern IP network foundation
The challenge
As AI adoption accelerates, IP networks must evolve to support highly dynamic, data-intensive workloads. To capture value in the emerging AI monetization cycle, you need to modernize your IP network foundations to deliver greater scalability, predictable performance, and operational efficiency.
Our approach
From AI-enabling applications and technologies to operational capabilities, our solution modernizes the network foundation. At its core, coherent routing unites high-performance IP with the integrated optical innovation required for today’s networks. Powered by SAOS 10.x, it delivers scale, predictability, and multi-cloud agility—adapting to AI traffic patterns and enabling AI services expansion.
The benefits
Accelerate service deployment, reduce operational overhead, and enable seamless multi-cloud connectivity. With the right IP networking foundation, you can deliver reliable, high-performance services that translate AI innovation into tangible value, driving sustained growth across the digital ecosystem.
AI is everywhere. But its value only flows where networks can carry it.
AI is scaling beyond the data center into distributed inference across clouds and the edge. Ciena’s Vini Santos explains how turning that intelligence into reaL value requires IP networks built for performance, adaptability, and scale.
AI-enabling applications
Data center connectivity
Deliver data center connectivity that accelerates deployment, scales seamlessly, and improves cost efficiency across emerging use cases. Our disaggregated connectivity solutions, led by advanced coherent routing, provide a streamlined foundation built for AI.
AI-ready IP transport network
Unlock the full value of AI from access to core with a low-latency, highly scalable, operationally efficient network. Our AI-ready IP transport network features scalable routing, converged IP and transport, and unified multi-layer control.
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