Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Panelists: Mohan Kalkunte, Rakesh Chopra, Yuval Degani, Krishna Doddapaneni, and Rajiv Krishnamurthy
Learn more here: atscaleconference.com
This was a panel discussion with leaders from Broadcom, Cisco, AMD, Nvidia, and Meta, focused on the impact of AI's rapid evolution on networking infrastructure. The panelists discussed significant pivots their companies had made in the last 12-18 months in response to new AI demands, such as the rise of distributed inference, reasoning models, and the critical need for low latency.
A central theme was the tension between creating proprietary, pre-standard innovations to move quickly and the necessity of developing open standards, like those from the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), to foster a collaborative and interoperable ecosystem. The conversation highlighted differing philosophies on this balance and the specific challenges of scale-up versus scale-out networking.
The panel concluded by offering career advice to professionals at all levels on how to engage with the fast-changing AI landscape.
Panelists: Mohan Kalkunte, Rakesh Chopra, Yuval Degani, Krishna Doddapaneni, and Rajiv Krishnamurthy
Learn more here: atscaleconference.com
This was a panel discussion with leaders from Broadcom, Cisco, AMD, Nvidia, and Meta, focused on the impact of AI's rapid evolution on networking infrastructure. The panelists discussed significant pivots their companies had made in the last 12-18 months in response to new AI demands, such as the rise of distributed inference, reasoning models, and the critical need for low latency.
A central theme was the tension between creating proprietary, pre-standard innovations to move quickly and the necessity of developing open standards, like those from the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), to foster a collaborative and interoperable ecosystem. The conversation highlighted differing philosophies on this balance and the specific challenges of scale-up versus scale-out networking.
The panel concluded by offering career advice to professionals at all levels on how to engage with the fast-changing AI landscape.
