{"id":519992,"date":"2025-10-22T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519992\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:10:20","slug":"lumen-unveils-bold-vision-for-the-internet-backbone-to-support-the-ai-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519992\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumen Unveils Bold Vision for the Internet Backbone to Support the AI Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nLumen Unveils Bold Vision for the Internet Backbone to Support the AI Era<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nChief Technology & Product Officer calls for Cloud 2.0, an urgent reinvention of today\u2019s Cloud network core architecture to meet AI\u2019s explosive growth<\/p>\n

\nIn an urgent call-to-action to hyperscalers, enterprises, and public sector organizations, Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN<\/a>) today unveiled a bold vision for reinventing the internet backbone to meet the unprecedented demands of AI. The vision, detailed by Lumen Chief Technology & Product Officer Dave Ward in a newly published white paper, predicts that today\u2019s internet and cloud architectures \u2013 designed for Cloud 1.0\u2019s static, centralized computing \u2013 cannot withstand the 100x increase in east-west traffic, the rise of real-time inference, and the need for sub-5 ms latency that AI workloads demand. According to Ward\u2019s report, entitled Cloud 2.0: Because AI <\/a>Won\u2019t Run on Yesterday\u2019s Internet<\/a>, a full-scale reset is required to fundamentally support the demands of AI at scale.<\/p>\n

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Lumen Chief Technology & Product Officer Dave Ward explains the urgent need for Cloud 2.0 architecture to meet the exponential demands of AI compute at the company’s recent Analyst Forum.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe public internet is not infinite, and it\u2019s not programmable to meet the service demands of AI,\u201d said Dave Ward. \u201cCloud 2.0 requires a complete reboot with programmable networks, massive bandwidth increases, and new distributed interconnect and on-ramp architectures. We\u2019re not talking about an incremental upgrade. We\u2019re talking about rebuilding the core of the internet for the AI era.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nFor more than a decade, \u201cCloud 1.0\u201d was layered onto networks never designed for the scale and intensity of multi-cloud AI workloads. But U.S. data center capacity is set to grow tenfold to nearly a billion square feet by 2030.1 AI is driving exabyte-scale data transfers that demand 400G+ speeds just to keep pace, and industrial-scale AI training requires ultra-low latency. Ward argues that patchwork solutions are no longer enough. The industry must embrace Cloud 2.0, a fusion of cloud and enterprise network architectures purpose-built for the AI era.<\/p>\n

\nSeveral defining features of Cloud 2.0 clarify how networks must evolve and perform to meet the exponential demands of AI:<\/p>\n