Analyzing AI traffic flows is critical in choosing cluster network hardware, say enterprise IT professionals who found they knew little about AI network needs until they ran their own trials.
AI is either going to spawn a golden age of profits and benefits or kill us all off, according to popular viewpoints on the subject. The latter view has been at least somewhat discredited; if you yell “AI” in a crowded theater these days, hardly anyone runs for the exits. The former one is still going on strong, and so network vendors have been quick to claim giant revenue growth potential in AI-driven changes. But wishing doesn’t make it so.
To almost everyone, AI really means generative AI services ranging from search augmentation to copilot tools associated with everything from writing emails to writing code. What delivers this massive intelligence injection? Networks. And so network traffic will explode from AI usage, and so will network equipment spending, right?
