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

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?