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Zayo and Equinix Set the Standard with the AI Infrastructure Blueprint
A common model for the underlying infrastructure required to scale for the next phase of AI DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Zayo, a leading global communications
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nA common model for the underlying infrastructure required to scale for the next phase of AI\n\n\n DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nZayo, a leading global communications infrastructure provider, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company®, today unveiled the industry’s first AI Infrastructure Blueprint, a joint infrastructure architecture framework that defines how next-generation infrastructure powers AI workloads. For the first time, neocloud and AI providers have a framework that clarifies the roles of high-capacity networks, interconnection hubs, training and inference data centers, and provides a clear model for connecting them.\n\n\n“AI is transforming the digital infrastructure landscape, but there’s been no playbook for connecting training, inference, and enterprise infrastructure,” explains Bill Long, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Zayo. “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.”\n\n\n“Neoclouds and AI providers face a widening gap between their ambitions and the infrastructure needed to support them, with scaling networks among the toughest challenges. The AI Infrastructure Blueprint brings needed clarity to the industry by mapping how Zayo’s extensive fiber backbone with Equinix’s global connectivity fabric work together to give teams a repeatable model to scale and support low latency inference at the edge. In our view, this blueprint marks a pivotal step toward a common model for scaling AI across communications infrastructure,” Craig Matsumoto, Contributing Analyst, Futuriom Research.\n\n\nInside the AI Infrastructure Blueprint\n\n\nAI at scale spans training locations, distributed inference, and network and interconnection nodes that link them. The AI Infrastructure Blueprint provides a clear infrastructure architecture framework for how these pieces fit together: Equinix as the neutral interconnection hubs for connecting networks, training and inference infrastructure; and Zayo as the high-capacity fiber and network services, linking hubs, data sources, and workloads.\n\n\nThe result is a clear, structured path to roll out and scale AI communication infrastructure giving neocloud and generative AI providers practical private connectiv...