The Deep Edge Podcast
The Deep Edge Podcast discusses technologies powering a cloud-native, fully connected world: Virtual and physical compute; virtual and physical networking; orchestration; mobile/wireless, wired; Internet of things; NFV; SDN; routing and switching; optical; cable; and hyper-scalers. We deliver the skills, insights, and materials to help our subscribers master their own transformations.
The Deep Edge Podcast
Latest Episodes
Quantum Networking: The Internet That Cannot Be Copied I Ep: 75
What if a message could be protected by the laws of physics—not just by encryption?In this video, we explore the real promise of quantum networking and the science behind the no-cloning theorem, quantum entanglement, trusted nodes, quan...
Optical Is the Foundation of AI: Why Light Is the Real AI Infrastructure Bottleneck I Ep: 74
For the last two years, the AI infrastructure conversation has been dominated by GPUs. But as AI clusters scale to tens of thousands — and eventually hundreds of thousands — of GPUs, the real bottleneck is shifting.The next AI infrastruc...
AI Is Not a GPU Problem — It’s a Network Economics Problem I Ep: 73
Everyone is talking about the GPU shortage. GPUs are expensive, scarce, power-hungry, and central to AI infrastructure. But the real issue is much deeper.In this episode of The Deep Edge Podcast, Ray Mota breaks down why AI infras...
Starbucks has recently pulled the plug on their AI inventory tool, after just 9 months in 11,000+ shops. I Ep: 72
Starbucks has recently pulled the plug on their AI inventory tool, after just 9 months in 11,000+ shops.The bigger lesson for me is simple:AI cannot solve an operations problem it does not understand.The technology was d...
The Economics of AI Infrastructure: From Network Cost to Capital Return I Ep: 71
In this episode of The Deep Edge Podcast, Ray Mota breaks down one of the most important questions facing network architects, CTOs, and business leaders building next-generation AI data centers: how to make the right infrastructure inves...