As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies is growing as well.
Ultimately, optical is the only type of connectivity technology that can deliver the capacity organizations require, over the distances needed, to connect data centers, servers, routers, switches and all of the distributed components that make up today’s network architectures, said Bill Gartner, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s optical systems and optics group.
