{"id":5662,"date":"2026-04-15T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/5662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:25:19","slug":"neoclouds-not-ready-for-ai-networking-omdia-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/5662\/","title":{"rendered":"Neoclouds Not Ready for AI Networking, Omdia Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AI AI models Network traffic and performance variations \"Neocloud Neocloud foundation timeline \"Top Top IP transit providers to neoclouds \"\" <\/p>\n

Audit probes scale, resilience, and sovereignty; enterprises urged to check five risk areas<\/p>\n

LONDON, April 15, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–Many neoclouds are not prepared for the networking demands of artificial intelligence, according to a new audit by Omdia, which warns enterprises to scrutinize suppliers beyond raw compute capacity.<\/p>\n

Omdia\u2019s study, covering 50 neoclouds, finds that providers have scaled compute for AI workloads, but networking infrastructure is becoming a critical constraint. AI performance increasingly depends on the ability to process and move data securely across distributed environments and geographies.<\/p>\n

“Network infrastructure will make or break neoclouds,” said Camille Mendler, Omdia Research Director, Telco B2B<\/a>. “Low-latency, resilient and secure connectivity- from backbone to edge – is table stakes for success, not least because sovereignty spans where AI workloads move.”<\/p>\n

Omdia identifies five key risk areas that enterprises adopting AI should investigate:<\/p>\n

In-house skills: 43% of neoclouds are seeking network engineers and security specialists to fill urgent competency gaps.<\/p>\n

Accountability: Certifications and service commitments for network uptime, security and data sovereignty need scrutiny; over a third of neoclouds minimize contractual liability.<\/p>\n

Cloud on-ramps: High-speed interconnection to clouds via public and private peering helps secure consistent performance; more than half of neoclouds do not use Internet peering exchanges.<\/p>\n

IP assets: IP address ownership supports rapid growth, traffic localization and routing control; 46% of neoclouds only control small IPv4 address blocks.<\/p>\n

IP transit resilience: One in five neoclouds relies on one IP transit provider, potentially creating a single point of failure.<\/p>\n

Neocloud networking capabilities vary from rudimentary to advanced, depending in part on their origins, which include bitcoin mining, content distribution, and web hosting.<\/p>\n

Omdia found that neocloud networking strategy is in flux globally. Many are rushing to partner, buy or build infrastructure as their dependency on networking grows:<\/p>\n

A group of 15 providers led by Tier 1 IP backbone owners Arelion, Cogent, and Lumen control 47% of all identified neocloud IP transit relationships.<\/p>\n

Neoclouds use 64Tbps of aggregated port capacity at 191 Internet Exchanges (IXPs) worldwide, with Frankfurt\u2019s De-CIX accounting for 10% of all port capacity.<\/p>\n

Equinix and Digital Realty interconnect the most neoclouds within their global facilities.<\/p>\n

Omdia\u2019s Telecoms group provides insights on neoclouds and AI networking across multiple expert teams:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI models Network traffic and performance variations Neocloud foundation timeline Top IP transit providers to neoclouds Audit probes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,4957,25,1864,4960,4956,4955,4954,4959,4961,4958,4962],"class_list":{"0":"post-5662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-network-traffic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-business-wire","12":"tag-camille-mendler","13":"tag-network-infrastructure","14":"tag-networking-demands","15":"tag-networking-infrastructure","16":"tag-omdia","17":"tag-omdia-research-director","18":"tag-performance-variations","19":"tag-sovereignty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}