Need for speed and efficiency from high performance networks for Artificial Intelligence

With an increase in the number of mission-critical workloads – such as AI/ML running on denser and faster datacenter infrastructure – there is a greater need for speed and efficiency from high performance networks. If we look at what's driving the need for increased bandwidth, we find growing densities within virtualized servers that have evolved on north-south and east-west traffic. In addition, a massive shift in machine-to-machine traffic has resulted in a major increase in required network bandwidth. The arrival of faster storage in the form of solid state devices such as Flash and NVMe is having a similar effect. We find the need for increased bandwidth all around us as our lives increasingly intersect with technology.