How Network Modernization Enables AI Success And Quantum Readiness
techradar.pro, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Organizations are racing to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations to unlock data insights, automate business processes, and enable better customer engagement experiences. But outdated network architectures are throttling performance and chilling ROI.
According to a global industry survey, data center experts predict AI workloads will place increasing demands on network infrastructure over the next 2-3 years - with 53% of respondents saying AI will drive more network demand than cloud or big data analytics.
As AI traffic scales faster than network capacity, these shortfalls will exacerbate existing infrastructure weaknesses and act as a powerful amplifier of operational risk. Currently, such shortfalls contribute to prolonged outages that average more than 75 days per year of system downtime, at a whopping annual cost of nearly $400 billion.