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What do the latest shifts in AI infrastructure, data center distribution, and enterprise AI adoption mean for the future of wave services? How should service providers respond as customers demand greater capacity, lower latency, stronger resiliency, and more flexible service models? Join us October 27 for a fireside chat to unpack the report’s key findings from the 2026 Wave Services Report and answer your questions about what they mean for your network and your customers. Register now.

What happens when the data center connectivity technologies we rely on today start running up against the limits of physics? Brodie Gage explores how rising interconnect speeds are shifting the boundaries between copper and optical—and opening the door to new approaches.

AI is entering a new phase, and it is changing what service providers need from their networks. Ciena’s Chuck Harris explores how AI is driving new requirements across IP transport networks, accelerating the need for modernization, and highlights three practical approaches for building a more scalable, automated, and AI-ready IP transport network.

In this issue of Network Innovation Insights, we explore how multi-rail photonics are enabling optical networks to scale, how rising interconnect speeds are changing data center connectivity, the growing opportunity for service providers as AI inference expands, and the architectures enabling distributed AI at scale. Plus, learn why we think Blue Planet’s recognition in the IDC MarketScape matters for autonomous networking.

Hear from experts at Ciena, TeleGeography, and Vocus as they discuss the future of network connectivity in Asia-Pacific. Explore the market forces driving investment, the technologies powering next-generation networks, and emerging opportunities for subsea cable operators, AI and cloud service providers, and digital infrastructure providers.

Hear Ciena’s Spencer Giacalone explain Near and Far Scale Across architectures, why highly parallel coherent capacity is foundational to distributed AI, and how Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Nano 800G coherent pluggables and RLS—including Hyper-Rail—are built to address this rapidly emerging networking challenge.