Microsoft
Executive perspectives from Microsoft across NextGenInfra's event and research showcases.
6 video interviews · 2022–2025
448G Connectivity: Key Requirements & Solutions
- Microsoft frames the shift from 224G to 448G around power budget and retimer challenges.
- Requirements include roughly 40 dB reach specifications alongside power and cost targets.
- Both copper and optical implementation approaches are on the table.
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Ashwin Gumaste, Principal AI Systems Architect at Microsoft, examines the industry's shift from 224G to 448G connectivity, focusing on power budget constraints and retimer solution challenges. He explores technical requirements including 40 dB reach specifications, power optimization targets, and cost considerations while discussing both copper and optical implementation approaches.
GenAI will Super Charge Network Operators
- Microsoft's Shawn Hakl sees software-based operations enhancing customer experience and network management efficiency.
- Managing the network as an API can modernize and monetize networks in innovative ways.
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Shawn Hakl, VP of 5G Strategy at Microsoft, emphasized the potential of integrating operations community with software-based solutions in networking, which can enhance customer experiences, improve network management efficiency, and enable the scaling of previously complex services. Hakl believes this approach, which involves managing the network as an API, can modernize and monetize the network in innovative ways.
Think Networks as a Platform
- Microsoft's Shawn Hakl notes strong LSO adoption enabling automation across SD-WAN and security.
- He underscores generative AI and AI-based operations as fundamental to automation.
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Shawn Hakl, VP of 5G Strategy at Microsoft, emphasized the significant strides made by operators and suppliers in adopting the LSO standards and framework, which has enabled automation across various sectors of the industry, particularly in SDWAN and security. Hakl also underscored the importance of forums like MEF in promoting industry collaboration, the advances in generative AI, and the focus on AI-based operations, which are fundamental for automation and the creation of modern connected applications that depend on a differentiated network.
Hyperscalers and the Carrier-Grade Telco Cloud
- Microsoft's Shawn Hakl says AT&T is the flagship customer for Azure for Operator Distributed Services.
- The platform already supports tens of millions of users as telco cloud enters actual execution.
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Telco Cloud is entering an exciting phase: actual execution. AT&T is the flagship customer for Microsoft's Azure for Operator Distributed Services which already supports tens of millions of users. Microsoft's VP, 5G Strategy, Shawn Hakl explains what carrier-grade Telco Cloud really entails.
Cloud-driven Economic Disruption for Services
- Microsoft Azure's Sanjay Mewada predicts cloud-driven economic disruption for services in 2022.
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Sanjay Mewada, Worldwide Marketing Leader at Microsoft Azure, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.
Can SONiC become the Linux of Network Operating Systems?
- Microsoft's David Maltz details SONiC, an open-source Linux-based network operating system.
- SONiC runs on switches from multiple vendors and ASICs.
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In this video, David Maltz, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Azure Networking, details the features and benefits of SONiC, an open source network operating system based on Linux that runs on switches from multiple vendors and ASICs. Download AvidThink's 2022 SmartNICs and Infrastructure Acceleration Report to explore developments in network acceleration.