Upscale AI Purpose-Built for AI Scale
Upscale AI was founded in 2025 and quickly emerged from stealth to become a unicorn following $300 million in seed and Series A funding. The leadership team consists of industry veterans from major firms like Cisco, Broadcom, and NVIDIA, focusing on a clean sheet architecture designed to solve the specific demands of AI networking. Unlike […]
Arista CloudVision 360° Observability for AI
Monitoring and managing complex AI infrastructure requires moving beyond traditional networking tools that treat the environment as a black box. Praful Bhaidsana explains that the industry has long suffered from a mean time to truth problem where network operators are blamed for issues they cannot properly diagnose because they lack visibility into what is connected […]
The Optics Evolution with Arista
Optics have been critical for network switches especially at 800 Gbps and evolving to 1.6T from cost, density, power efficiency and performance perspective. Arista has been driving major innovations in optics to power networking for AI applications. In this section, we will cover the optics landscape and highlight the evolution to high-density 1.6T optics for […]
Arista Networking for AI: The Ethernet Backplane
We go deep into the fabric of the AI cluster. We’ll discuss why Ethernet has become the definitive backplane for AI workloads. We’ll explore hardware innovations in power efficiency and the protocol optimizations–like Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) and advanced congestion control–that keep data moving at the speed of thought. This section will cover different networks […]
Scaling the AI Network Frontier with Arista
Brendan Gibbs and other leaders from Arista outlined the company’s comprehensive strategy for AI infrastructure. The presentation highlighted Arista’s Etherlink portfolio, which is optimized for 800G connectivity and anchored by the EOS operating system. Gibbs emphasized that a well-optimized network is no longer just plumbing but a critical component that can improve AI job completion […]
Aviz Network Copilot Demo with Cody McCain
Aviz Networks introduces the AI Networking Operations Center (NOC), a vendor-neutral, agentic AI platform designed to transform traditional network management. Unlike tools that merely append a Large Language Model (LLM) to an existing product, Aviz provides a private, secure, and interoperable framework that integrates with a customer’s existing ecosystem. The platform is built on the […]
Aviz and the AI NOC
Aviz Networks introduces the AI Networking Operations Center (NOC), a vendor-neutral, agentic AI platform designed to transform traditional network management. Unlike tools that merely append a Large Language Model (LLM) to an existing product, Aviz provides a private, secure, and interoperable framework that integrates with a customer’s existing ecosystem. The platform is built on the […]
From 400G BiDi to 1.6T: Cisco Optics for Al Fabrics
As AI training and inference scale, the network must function as an extension of the compute fabric. This session explores the architectural requirements for high-performance AI data centers. We will examine the shift toward deterministic networking to mitigate tail latency and fabric congestion, alongside critical hardware innovations — including advanced cooling and next-generation optics, designed […]
Cisco Scaling AI – Deterministic Fabrics and High-Density Infrastructure
As AI training and inference scale, the network must function as an extension of the compute fabric. This session explores the architectural requirements for high-performance AI data centers. We will examine the shift toward deterministic networking to mitigate tail latency and fabric congestion, alongside critical hardware innovations — including advanced cooling and next-generation optics, designed […]
Lightyear Demo of Procurement, Network Inventory Manager, and Telecom Expense Management (TEM)
Buying and managing enterprise network services has barely changed in decades–carrier portals, spreadsheets, blind renewals, and invoices that never match the contract. Lightyear is building an AI software platform that modernizes the enterprise telecom lifecycle, automating and optimizing for you everything that carriers make difficult. The platform serves as a telecom operating system designed to […]
Automate Enterprise Network Management with Lightyear’s Telecom Operating System
Buying and managing enterprise network services has barely changed in decades–carrier portals, spreadsheets, blind renewals, and invoices that never match the contract. Lightyear is building an AI software platform that modernizes the enterprise telecom lifecycle, automating and optimizing for you everything that carriers make difficult. Dennis Thankachan, CEO and co-founder, explains that telecom operations are […]
Nokia AI Scale Platforms with Igor Giangrossi
AI networks require purpose-built hardware platforms designed for different roles across the infrastructure. This presentation outlines the hardware platforms positioned for these roles highlighting how each supports performance, bandwidth, and operational needs. This preso will have a focus on with a focus on the scale-out part of the network. It also looks ahead to emerging […]
Nokia Management for AI Data Center Networks
Explore the essential management considerations for building and operating multi-tenant AI data center networks. Attendees will learn why abstraction is critical to achieving the scale, speed, and consistency required for AI infrastructure. The presentation will demonstrate how event-driven automation (EDA) simplifies the design, deployment, and operation of backend AI networks, enabling secure and efficient multi-tenancy […]
Ethernet and its Evolution to Support Nokia AI Networking
Ethernet continues to evolve to meet the performance and scaling demands of modern AI networking architectures, progressing from RoCEv2 toward innovations driven by the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC). This presentation discusses these requirements and introduces UEC Specification 1.0, with a focus on scale-out AI designs and the core philosophies shaping its development. Key Ethernet capabilities […]
AI Data Center Nokia Validated Design (NVD)
Get an inside look at how Nokia Validated Designs (NVDs) streamline AI-ready data center and networking deployments through proven architectures, rigorous validation, and real-world performance insights. We’ll highlight several of our latest AI-focused NVDs, show how partners are extending them, and preview what’s coming next as we evolve the portfolio to meet the demands of […]
Nokia AI Networking Innovation Lab
The rise of AI has driven the emergence of multiple new network domains, each with distinct roles, architectures, and performance requirements. This presentation explores these new networks and their roles. Patrick McCabe, representing Nokia, builds on the premise that AI is a permanent fixture in the technological landscape, requiring a non-linear evolution of network architecture. […]
Nokia Introduction with Andy Lapteff
In this presentation, Andy Lapteff, a network engineer turned product marketing manager at Nokia, introduces the company’s shift from its iconic mobile phone legacy to its current role as a leader in mission-critical network infrastructure. He highlights Nokia’s historical reputation for reliability, exemplified by the legendary indestructible 3310 phone, and explains how that same commitment […]
ResOps Powered by Commvault Cloud Unity
The presentation centers on the critical evolution from traditional disaster recovery to a more robust framework of cyber resilience. Chris Bevil, a recovering CISO, shares his transition from the high-stress frontline of security to Commvault, where he now focuses on the intersection of IT, security, and board-level business objectives. He emphasizes that the modern threat […]
What’s NEW at Object First
Anthony Cusimano, Director of Solutions Marketing and one of the company’s earliest employees, provides a roadmap of the company’s rapid hardware and software evolution. Since its inception with OOTBI (Out-of-the-Box Immutability), Object First has expanded its portfolio to include the Ootbi 432, a 2U-node offering 432 terabytes of RAID 60 storage. A single four-node cluster […]
Object First Honeypot Demo with Geoff Burke
Senior Technology Advisor Geoff Burke showcases the integrated honeypot functionality built into the Object First appliance. Designed as a digital tripwire, the honeypot is physically hosted on the appliance but logically segmented to ensure security. It serves as an early warning system to detect lateral movement and reconnaissance efforts by attackers who typically probe the […]
How Object First Achieves Absolute Immutability
Geoff Burke, a senior technology advisor at Object First, outlines the architecture of their “Out-of-the-Box Immutability” (OOTBI) solution. Built on Zero Trust principles, the system secures data by assuming breach at every level, from production data and backup software to the primary storage target. The Object First appliance is a hardened Linux-based on-premises storage target […]