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Latency kills AI: Why interconnection is the missing link for enterprise AI success
In the race for AI advantage, CIOs are discovering that low latency isn’ t just a nicety – it’ s a necessity. Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX, discusses why efficient interconnection strategies are no longer optional but a critical, often overlooked, foundation for building responsive, high-performing AI infrastructure and delivering on its transformative promise.
Artificial Intelligence( AI) that has the potential to revolutionise entire industries, has long passed its demo stage. It now runs through the veins of businesses and will soon become the lifeblood of our economy.
From fraud detection and humanoid robotics to autonomous vehicles and realtime language processing, AI is now expected to operate instantly, intuitively and everywhere. But with this shift comes a new bottleneck: latency. No matter how powerful the model or how abundant the compute power, if the network can’ t deliver data with single-digit millisecond precision, AI won’ t deliver the intended results. The reality is simple – without ultra-low-latency connectivity, there is no viable future for AI at scale.
That’ s why I was pleased to join Tonya Witherspoon of Wichita State University and Hunter Newby of Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points( CNIXP) for a webinar on one of the most overlooked constraints in digital infrastructure: round-trip delay( RTD). While our conversation covered AI, network design, and public-private collaboration, the central message was clear: we cannot solve tomorrow’ s challenges with yesterday’ s networks. Latency isn’ t just a technical metric; it’ s an economic limiter, a competitive differentiator and now a make-or-break component of AI.
Below are five key discussion points from our webinar, titled‘ Latency Kills: Solving the bottleneck of RTD to unlock the future of AI’, on why solving the latency
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