{"id":970313,"date":"2025-10-30T08:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970313"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:52:08","slug":"ai-to-drive-surge-in-data-bandwidth-ciena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/ai-to-drive-surge-in-data-bandwidth-ciena\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to drive surge in data bandwidth: Ciena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI is expected to drive a dramatic surge in data bandwidth demand, fundamentally transforming how networks are designed and scaled and as this growth accelerates, addressing high-capacity requirements will emerge as a key priority for the telecom industry, according to a Ciena executive. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the infrastructure front, we are seeing a major shift as data center capacity rapidly expands. Earlier, the focus was on the cloud era \u2014 building digital ecosystems atop cloud data centers. Now, the transition to AI infrastructure, powered by data-hungry GPUs, is driving a new wave of network demand,\u201d Gautam Billa, Vice President, International Sales Engineering, Ciena, told ETTelecom in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is expected to drive a dramatic surge in data bandwidth demand, fundamentally transforming how networks are designed and scaled and as this growth accelerates, addressing high-capacity requirements will emerge as a key priority for the telecom industry, according to a Ciena executive. \u201cOn the infrastructure front, we are seeing a major shift as data center capacity rapidly expands. Earlier, the focus was on the cloud era \u2014 building digital ecosystems atop cloud data centers. Now, the transition to AI infrastructure, powered by data-hungry GPUs, is driving a new wave of network demand,\u201d Gautam Billa, Vice President, International Sales Engineering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}