The Fibre Factor: Rethinking connectivity infrastructure for AI-scale data centres

04 Dec 2025
ITW & Datacloud Asia Stage, Island Ballroom
Datacloud Asia

 

  • The capacity gap: Are current fibre networks (built for 10G–100G) prepared to support 400G and 800G workloads across increasingly distributed infrastructure? 

  • Fibre investment models: Are infrastructure funds and data centre investors treating fibre as a core investment class, or is it still undervalued in digital infra portfolios? 

  • Planning for latency and redundancy: How does fibre availability — or lack thereof — shape where data centres are sited, how edge is deployed, and how reliable the ecosystem truly is? 

  • Subsea to metro handoff: What are the physical and commercial challenges in linking cable landing stations to inland hyperscale campuses? How can this be streamlined? 

  • Collaboration & procurement strategy: How should global carriers, hyperscalers, and fibre vendors align to deliver latency-sensitive, modular, and SLA-driven fibre networks for next-generation workloads? 

Chairperson
Dedi Iskander
Dedi Iskander, Regional Head APAC - DataCentre Hawk
Speakers
Tony Rossabi
Tony Rossabi, Founder and Managing Member - OCOLO
Debananda Ghosh
Debananda Ghosh, Cloud Analytics ASEAN Lead - MICROSOFT
Praveen Agarwal
Praveen Agarwal, Chief Sales Officer - CONSTL