THE DATA CENTRE INTERVIEW
“ Resilience is not just about adding more routes, it is also about designing an intelligent architecture”
Sharat Sinha, CEO, Airtel Business
But Sharat is also clear that diversity alone is not enough.“ Resilience is not just about adding more routes, it is also about designing an intelligent architecture,” Sharat explains.
Hybrid networks, in his view, need to be engineered to predict potential failure points, to distinguish between mission-critical and background traffic, and to recover at speed. Advanced orchestration and AI-driven security operations are, he argues, what convert physical diversity into genuine network intelligence.
Hybrid networking means more than adding fibre One of the persistent misconceptions in infrastructure discussions is that resilience is primarily a question of volume – that more fibre routes automatically translate to greater uptime.
Sharat challenges that concept and the problem, he argues, is that additional routes which pass through the same geographic or regulatory chokepoints do not actually reduce concentration risk. The measure of a hybrid network is not the number of paths it contains but how intelligently it manages them.
“ At Airtel Business, we therefore ensure a strategic and intelligent approach to hybrid networking that goes well beyond simply adding more fibre routes,” Sharat says.
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