Scalable, cost-effective, high-capacity transport to empower the AI revolution
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption continues to gain momentum across nearly every industry. In fact, according to a recent survey, more than 75 percent of organizations now use gen AI and/or analytical AI in at least one business function. As AI usage drives networking capacity demands sky high, communications service providers (CSPs) and data center operators need more affordable, flexible and sustainable network architecture. Scalable IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) edge networking offers a practical, cost-effective solution to accommodate this escalating capacity growth.
Excel at the edge with IPoDWDM
Increasingly complex AI models, such as deep learning large language models (LLMs), rely on massive amounts of data traveling to and from data centers. This data demand is further compounded by a rise in distributed computing, which enables multiple data centers or clouds to work together synergistically to solve very large problems more efficiently. Yet, all too often, transport networks can become a bottleneck that impedes this critical data flow.
As AI demands place additional load on the network, bandwidth capacity is throttled at the edge, creating significant congestion. This situation not only damages the customer experience, but also drives up power consumption, impacting the sustainability, efficiency and operating costs of the network. As a result, a growing number of CSPs, cloud infrastructure providers (CIPs) and data center operators are faced with the necessity of upgrading telecoms and data center interconnect (DCI) network infrastructure to deal with this issue. Fortunately, with the latest advances in optical transport technology, they have new solutions available to meet this challenge.
Today, network operators have the option of deploying IPoDWDM edge networking to meet bandwidth capacity demands more efficiently than traditional optical line system (OLS) technologies. Essentially, IPoDWDM combines IP routing and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), merging the IP and optical layers. This simplifies and streamlines transport network infrastructure, improving performance, scalability and efficiency, while reducing space constraints and increasing visibility across the converged architecture.
Open up to high capacity
When choosing an IPoDWDM edge networking solution, network operators can further improve performance and return on investment (ROI) by selecting a disaggregated offering that avoids proprietary vendor lock-in. Compatible with open OLS standards, an open networking option provides hardware and software independence, helping to reduce costs, speed deployment and simplify service delivery.
For example, the Fujitsu IPoDWDM Edge Networking solution is a multi-domain, multi-vendor optical transport portfolio that addresses a variety of transport needs. Running on open networking switches and compatible with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) standards, this disaggregated solution enables interoperability with other vendors including network elements and open optics.
Available in partnership with IP Infusion, Fujitsu’s IPoDWDM Edge Networking portfolio offers high-capacity transport and traffic aggregation in a carrier-grade, programmable solution. This turnkey approach to upgrading existing IP optical networks improves fiber utilization to accommodate variable capacity growth where it’s most needed — at the edge of the network — while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
Scale economically and sustainably
As new AI use cases continue to drive data demands, the ability to scale capacity quickly and affordably is ever more urgent. Fujitsu’s highly scalable IPoDWDM solution offers line rates that can scale from 100G to 400G using open pluggable optics without replacing the access platform, saving time and money to protect network investments.
With a streamlined architecture, this IPoDWDM solution optimizes scalability to ensure that available capacity adapts to changing traffic demands to support high-bandwidth applications at the edge of the network. Plus, the Fujitsu IPoDWDM solutions enable reduced power consumption compared to previous technologies, offering efficient operation to meet sustainability goals and environmental regulations.
Simplify end-to-end transport
As IP and optical layers converge, the loss of optical visibility makes it more difficult to provision end-to-end (E2E) transport services. This complexity is multiplied in multi-vendor, multi-domain optical networks, complicating integration with existing optical network infrastructure and delaying service delivery.
The Virtuora Network Controller solution supports the Fujitsu IPoDWDM Edge Networking portfolio with a ‘single pane of glass’ for simplified multi-layer, multi-vendor network management, visibility and control. With comprehensive planning, engineering, operations, and E2E management for routers, pluggable optics and ROADM infrastructure within a unified packet-optical solution, the Virtuora Network Controller solution streamlines provisioning of E2E services for simpler, more resilient networks, enabling significant TCO savings.
Empower AI today and tomorrow
Meeting the challenge of escalating data demand requires scalable, cost-effective, high-capacity optical transport. With open standards and complete management visibility, CSPs, CIPs and DCI network operators can achieve cost-effective capacity scaling and seamless E2E connectivity through intuitive, sustainable, affordable IPoDWDM architectures.
