Tom Williams, Vice President of Marketing for Acacia, discusses how the optics industry is at the forefront of the AI evolution, but will need to undergo architectural changes both inside and between data centers to meet the anticipated bandwidth demands. His presentation explores how AI traffic is impacting the optical transport environment beyond the intra-building (Scale Up, Scale Out) network and into Scale Across architectures. Power, reliability, and latency all play a part. It also discusses how next generation solutions such as 800ZR/ZR+ and 1.6T MSA coherent modules will play a key role in the new architecture design changes being discussed now in standards groups to meet this future demand.
