Stefan Voll discusses architectural shifts in optical networking to support AI at ECOC 2025
Session will explore how AI-driven data demands are reshaping the edge and middle mile of optical infrastructure
- Speakers: Stefan Voll, senior director of business development at Adtran
- Topics: The transformative impact of AI on optical networks
- When: Wednesday, October 1, 3:20 p.m. CEST
- Where: ECOC 2025, Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark www.ecoc2025.org
As artificial intelligence accelerates across industries, optical networks must evolve to support the massive data flows between enterprise data lakes, AI training centers and edge compute locations. These new traffic patterns are driving a rethink of traditional network architectures, especially in the edge and middle mile.
In this Market Focus session, Stefan Voll will outline how AI is reshaping bandwidth demand and prompting a shift from legacy 10Gbit/s rings and trees to flat, colored coherent architectures. He will discuss the move toward 100Gbit/s at the edge and 400Gbit/s+ aggregation in service provider networks, and explain how these changes can help operators scale efficiently while meeting the performance needs of AI workloads.