The rapid adoption of AI/ML presents the optical communications sector with both challenges and opportunities. The top challenges include searching capacity demand, the complexity of optical networking technologies, rising costs, and increased power consumption. Survey respondents are investigating these and other near-term solutions, along with emerging high-speed coherent pluggable transceivers. The market for AI/ML is poised to explode, but when it does, the optical networking ecosystem will be ready with solutions.
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