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“ As a key enabler of innovations that drive network connectivity , Ciena is helping our customers – the network providers – to provide the necessary underlying network infrastructure to support these emerging technologies and bandwidth to support growing traffic demands .”
Generative AI , which has been the hot topic of 2023 , has also had a huge impact on the edge . Hatheier explains that the basic concept of why GenAI has such a big impact on the edge is the so-called ‘ inference ’. “ Inference is where real-world data meets a pre-trained AI model ( that pre-training has happened in the big data centre ),” he says . “ With a growing number of users , the inference needs to scale on the edge , and that edge could even be within an enterprise or somewhere close with low latency .”
The promise of edge computing in the future Edge computing is rapidly gaining traction , driven by groundbreaking technological advancements such as 5G wireless networking , IoT and AI , as well as data sovereignty .
From an application perspective , new deployments at the edge will generate and capture vast amounts of data .
118 February 2024