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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have become an integral part of the businesses of the webscale players.
The mega data centre players apply machine learning to the treasure trove of data collected from users to improve services and target advertising.
They can also use their data centres to offer cloud-based AI services.
Training neural networks with data sets is so intensive that it is driving new processor and networking requirements.
It is also impacting optics. Optical interfaces will need to become faster to cope with the amount of data, and that means interfaces with more parallel channels.
Anticipating these trends, a group of companies has formed the Continuous-Wave Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CW-WDM) multi-source agreement (MSA).
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