For many, artificial intelligence (AI) is extending further into every aspect of life, both personal and professional. Like the exponential growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990s that made the internet a central part of modern life, AI is truly revolutionizing the way we work, learn, create and communicate.
As different AI models advance, leapfrogging each other in capabilities and power, the massive data centers that house them depend on ever-evolving network infrastructure to keep their increasingly dense AI clusters connected and efficient. CommScope is proud to provide the innovative solutions that can flex and adapt to AI’s ever-changing, ever-growing demands.
Thinking big, building small
In the midst of this expansion, AI data centers face a challenge in their increasing network density and complexity.Today’s AI compute facilities can employ tens or hundreds of thousands of fully networked graphics processing units (GPUs), meaning that each individual GPU must be able to communicate with every other GPU. That can take acres of rack space and countless miles of fiber-optic infrastructure connecting each individual component.
CommScope’s high-density fiber infrastructure packs more fibers into slimmer cables, so AI data centers can consolidate more compute resources into fewer racks. This not only reduces the overall footprint, network complexity and cooling requirements, but also provides these data centers with a reliable migration path to the native 800G Ethernet speeds needed to meet tomorrow’s demand for AI resources.
33%
projected annual
increase of AI data center capacity until 20301
10x
more optical fiber is required by AI data centers than by
traditional data centers2
Making smarter use of resources
AI’s explosive growth has also given rise to staffing shortages and increased stress on electrical sources. The amount of skilled technician labor required to constantly update and maintain a hyperscale data center is immense.
CommScope helps technicians accomplish more in less time with plug-and-play solutions that reduce deployment time and complexity, as well as our AI-driven network as a service (NaaS) solution. NaaS empowers both data centers and enterprise AI deployments with the economical, responsive third-party remote support that keeps their infrastructure operating at peak performance, providing much-needed assistance to limited staff.
When AI data centers are increasingly committed to reducing their power consumption wherever possible—as a matter of economics as well as sustainability—CommScope builds to meet that need as well. Our imVision® automated infrastructure management (AIM) solution can automatically track and trace connectivity across the network, document port usage and identify stranded assets that could be put to productive use—all of which helps AI data centers realize a more sustainable network profile.
AI is here to stay - and so is CommScope
There’s no telling where AI will take its next big strides, but if recent history is any guide, it will continue evolving. CommScope is proud to help enable this exciting industry to deliver on its potential—and excited to see how now meets next.
>90%
of enterprises will incorporate some kind of NaaS networking by 20303
44%
of all increased power demand through 2028 will be from data centers4
Sources
https://www.flexential.com/resources/blog/navigating-ai-data-center-trends#:~:text=The%20exponential%20growth%20in%20demand,increased%20density%20and%20energy%20consumption
https://www.thefastmode.com/expert-opinion/38033-how-fiber-innovation-is-key-to-unlocking-ai-data-center-network-growth
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/data-center-load-growth-us-electricity-bills-bain/730691/