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Netris Day Zero Demo with Alex Saroyan
This presentation provides a technical demonstration of the Netris controller’s capabilities in automating and simulating large-scale AI networking environments. The demonstration highlights the platform’s Day Zero functionality, where network engineers can model complex topologies and validate designs before physical hardware even arrives. By utilizing Terraform and the Netris CloudSim, Saroyan illustrates how a controller can […]
Consuming AI Networks with Netris
This presentation focuses on the consumption model of AI networks, specifically helping network engineers enable self-service capabilities for AI factory and neocloud operators. Alex Saroyan argues that while network engineers manage complex physical infrastructures, the consumers, such as compute orchestration products, require a simplified cloud-like abstraction. Netris achieves this through its Network Automation, Abstraction, and […]
Netris and the Lifecycle of AI Networking
Alex Saroyan, CEO and co-founder of Netris, provides insights from the company’s experience in deploying and automating large-scale GPU clusters. This second part of the presentation focuses specifically on the life cycle of AI networking, emphasizing that sustainable AI business strategies require architecting for long-term growth and newer GPU generations rather than single-cluster deployments. Saroyan […]
Netris Introduction and Overview with Alex Saroyan
CEO and co-founder Alex Saroyan discusses the evolution of network engineering in the era of AI. Saroyan highlights that AI networking significantly differs from traditional data center networking due to the massive scale of GPU clusters, ranging from 1,000 to over 50,000 GPUs, and the sheer density of network switches involved. Netris introduces the concept […]
Upscale AI’s Point of View with Aravind Srikumar
Upscale AI distinguishes between two critical domains: scale-up networking, which creates a large compute environment within a rack where multiple GPUs see a flat, unified memory, and scale-out networking, which connects these domains through memory copy operations. The presentation highlights that the network has become the backplane of a distributed ecosystem, moving from a standard […]
Upscale AI and the AI ASIC Landscape
Upscale AI posits that traditional data center networking is a round peg in a square hole for AI, as existing infrastructures were designed for general-purpose web traffic rather than the massive, synchronized communication required by billions of parameters and trillion-token models. By focusing exclusively on AI traffic and removing the bloat of legacy enterprise features, […]
Upscale AI Networking – What Has Changed with AI
Upscale AI argues that traditional cloud and front-end networks, which are largely based on a client-server architecture, are fundamentally ill-suited for the unique demands of AI workloads. While standard web traffic is connection-oriented and tolerant of latency, AI clusters rely on collective communication where GPUs perform synchronized all-to-all data exchanges. This shift results in a […]
AI Changes in the Norm with Upscale AI
Upscale AI, founded in 2025, recently emerged from stealth as a unicorn following $300 million in combined seed and Series A funding. With a team of industry veterans, Upscale AI is focused on building a clean sheet networking architecture specifically for the backend and lean front-end of AI clusters. The speakers emphasize that traditional data […]
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 with Paymon Mogharabi
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 with Richard Licon
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 […]