India, April 8 -- As artificial intelligence (AI) scales across enterprises, data centres, and telecom networks, it is exposing the limits of infrastructure built for a different era. Predictable traffic patterns have given way to volatile, high-volume, and latency-sensitive workloads, forcing a rethink of how networks are designed and operated, with India emerging as a critical node in this shift.

Opening the Voice&Data-Ciena Leadership Webinar on Network Transformation: An Imperative in the AI Age, the magazine editor Shubhendu Parth, described the evolving role of networks as a structural inflection point.

"Networks designed for stability are now being pushed to handle volatility, bursty traffic, real-time processing, and continuousl...