Multi-cloud integration and hybrid environments The evolution of enterprise computing architectures toward multi-cloud and hybrid environments create additional complexity for telcos. Applications and services are no longer concentrated in single data centres or geographic locations. Instead, they are distributed across multiple cloud providers, edge computing locations and hybrid infrastructure deployments.

The shift toward distributed infrastructure is reshaping network requirements.“ We are no longer designing networks for a single, specific data centre,” Wayne explains.“ Rather, the network must adapt to a wide range of data centre needs – as application usage and AI adoption grow, so does the number of data centres we need to reach.”

As AI adoption accelerates, connectivity demands skyrocket. Modern applications use distributed architectures, with services like authentication, processing and content delivery spread across regions. Manually managing the process is not feasible.“ You need a highly autonomous, AI-driven network to handle the scale and pace of demand,” says Wayne.

The growth rates that telecommunications providers encounter in serving these distributed architectures are unprecedented, he adds:“ Most telecom providers will be seeing 30 to 40 % growth in their capacity requirements to keep up

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