Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Abstract
Network reliability is critical to ensure AI functions effectively – from training LLMs to deploying mature models for applications and end-users. Network engineers may need to redefine their Service Level Objectives to prevent network instability from throttling GPUs and reducing their performance, as well as employ monitoring tools to ensure peak performance and minimize outages. As your data volume grows, this type of data-driven approach also enables the use of automation or code to handle traffic loads. When mature models are deployed for use in applications or by end-users, reliability challenges are amplified by the need to keep geographically dispersed locations in sync and available.
Dave Schaeffer:
Dave Schaeffer founded Cogent Communications in August 1999 and is the Chief Executive Officer. Under Mr. Schaeffer's leadership, Cogent has become one of the world's largest Internet Providers. Mr. Schaeffer has led the efforts of 13 successful acquisitions, propelling Cogent's originally U.S.-based network into Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Mr. Schaeffer has successfully founded and operated six other businesses prior to Cogent. These businesses span a wide array of industries from communications to commercial real estate. His diverse background and entrepreneurial successes have enabled him to build management teams that constructed and operate the only facilities-based, non-oversubscribed multinational network of its kind. In 2019, Mr. Schaeffer was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year® in Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications.
nanog.org/events/nanog-97/content/5543
Abstract
Network reliability is critical to ensure AI functions effectively – from training LLMs to deploying mature models for applications and end-users. Network engineers may need to redefine their Service Level Objectives to prevent network instability from throttling GPUs and reducing their performance, as well as employ monitoring tools to ensure peak performance and minimize outages. As your data volume grows, this type of data-driven approach also enables the use of automation or code to handle traffic loads. When mature models are deployed for use in applications or by end-users, reliability challenges are amplified by the need to keep geographically dispersed locations in sync and available.
Dave Schaeffer:
Dave Schaeffer founded Cogent Communications in August 1999 and is the Chief Executive Officer. Under Mr. Schaeffer's leadership, Cogent has become one of the world's largest Internet Providers. Mr. Schaeffer has led the efforts of 13 successful acquisitions, propelling Cogent's originally U.S.-based network into Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Mr. Schaeffer has successfully founded and operated six other businesses prior to Cogent. These businesses span a wide array of industries from communications to commercial real estate. His diverse background and entrepreneurial successes have enabled him to build management teams that constructed and operate the only facilities-based, non-oversubscribed multinational network of its kind. In 2019, Mr. Schaeffer was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year® in Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications.
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