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The industry will settle on a definition, and should choose one that still works in 2030
Fiber no longer functions as a passive backbone interconnecting largely uniform compute systems. Optical infrastructure now operates as an active architectural layer carrying multiple workload classes with distinct operational characteristics
Optical connectivity should be treated as a first-order design pillar alongside power and cooling. It must be tailored to the workload, the topology, the operational model, and the deployment cadence
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