AI boom breathes new life into optics for the data center
Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin joined the podcast to discuss the optical networking industry's opportunity to cash in on the AI boom in the data center.
At a Glance
- AI creates new opportunities for optical market in the data center (02:39)
- What's driving the demand for linear pluggable optics, or LPOs (06:26)
- Will service providers' voices be marginalized in optical equipment development? (16:03)
Like a spring rain, the allure of fresh opportunities for the optical networking market to support AI workloads in the data center brought new life to this year's OFC Conference in San Diego. Heavy Reading Senior Principal Analyst Sterling Perrin joined the podcast to discuss why AI in the data center was the main focus of this year's event.
Perrin also discussed optical developments at the edge of the network, energy use challenges within the data center and highlights from the OIF Forum's demo at OFC.
Click on the caption button for a lightly edited transcript.
Here are a few topics we covered:
Why the mood at OFC was so enthusiastic (01:44)
AI creates new opportunities for optical market in the data center (02:39)
Impact of data center buildout for service providers focused on the edge network (03:16)
What's driving the demand for linear pluggable optics, or LPOs (06:26)
Challenges GPUs present to managing energy use in the data center (10:46)
Will service providers' voices be marginalized in optical equipment development? (16:03)
As 400ZR ramps up, 800ZR and 1.6Tbit/s optical generations are being built out in parallel (17:42)
Highlights from the OIF Forum demo at OFC (20:35)
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