Zayo and Equinix Create AI Infrastructure Blueprint

"Two infrastructure providers - Zayo and Equinix - have released the AI Infrastructure Blueprint, an architectural framework that Zayo says "defines how next-generation infrastructure powers AI [artificial intelligence] workloads." The AI Infrastructure Blueprint provides AI providers and neoclouds with a framework that defines the roles of high-capacity networks, interconnection hubs, training, and inference data centers. The plan also provides a model for connecting them."

""AI is transforming the digital infrastructure landscape, but there's been no playbook for connecting training, inference, and enterprise infrastructure," Zayo Chief Product and Strategy Officer Bill Long said in a press release about the AI Infrastructure Blueprint. "Together with Equinix, we're introducing a network standard and data center best practices that makes AI communication infrastructure scalable, extensible, and ready for what comes next.""

"Scalable reference designs that focus on the network elements that matter at scale, reducing trial and error and shortening time to market for AI training and inference. Practical direction across key network layers and elements, informed by Equinix and Zayo's cloud connectivity and IP peering experience, to help organizations design for long-term AI growth. Common terminology that aligns customers, partners, and vendors across the AI networking stack."

The AI Infrastructure Blueprint defines roles and connections among high-capacity networks, interconnection hubs, training data centers, and inference data centers to support AI workloads. Scalable reference designs reduce trial and error and shorten time to market for AI training and inference by focusing on the network elements that matter at scale. Practical direction across key network layers and elements is informed by Equinix and Zayo experience in cloud connectivity and IP peering to enable long-term AI growth. Common terminology aligns customers, partners, and vendors across the AI networking stack. Zayo has invested in long-haul dark fiber routes and 400 Gbps core network enablement in North America to meet AI demands.

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