IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure

The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.

The Forum develops and promotes Innovative Optical and Wireless Network technology, an effort to replace all wired networks with optical. IOWN’s backers hope to one day bring their tech all the way to the connections between dies on a chip, but for now have a high speed and low latency WAN technology that has demonstrated the ability to handle workloads like synchronous data replication over hundreds of kilometers of optical fiber that an IOWN-aligned carrier assembles into an all-photonic network.

The Forum held its annual meeting yesterday in Sydney, Australia, and during the event The Register met with steering committee chair Gonzalo Camarillo and Katsutoshi Itoh, who leads IOWN’s use case working group.

Both told us that recent consultations with potential users saw datacenter ...