There's simply no Plan B for submarine cables, which are the size of a common garden hose and are situated in the abysses of oceans the world over. This means that as an industry, we must continually innovate, adopt, and adapt to ensure these submerged engineering marvels continually evolve to meet the ever-changing demands from end-users, both humans and machines. Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) submarine cables, Open Cables, Shannon's Limit, and the increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are hot topics across the submarine network industry. Increasingly, technologies borne in data centers and terrestrial networks are finding their way into submarine networks, and that's a good thing. The network can and should be viewed from end-to-end along the entire service path, overland and undersea, and increasingly, right into data centers.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is in vogue. It's almost impossible to read an article in any media outlet that doesn't mention AI and the possibility it will reshape the world in which we live. In fact, according to research conducted by AT&T, AI has the potential to double GDP growth across geographies by 2035. Consumers are already interacting with a variety of low-level AI assistants, such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa. With respect to the telecom sector, AI – supported by machine learning (ML) – is fundamental to controlling and operating communications networks of the future.

You will be spoiled for choice when looking for stocks to take advantage of the booming artificial intelligence (AI) market. Almost all the well-known tech giants -- including NVIDIA, Intel, Amazon, Alphabet, and many others -- are betting big on this fast-growing field, as they don't want to miss out on an opportunity that could be worth a total of almost $60 billion by 2025. But these aren't the only ways to take advantage of this space. Lesser-known stocks like Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX), Ciena (NYSE:CIEN), and CEVA (NASDAQ:CEVA) could win big from the AI revolution. Xilinx makes programmable logic devices used across several growth segments such as data centers, automotive, and industrial.