Evolving Your Service Provider Network for AI-Era Traffic: Fabrics, IP over DWDM, and Open Architectures

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Broadcast Wednesday, August 19, 2026. The full replay is now available on demand.

As access speeds climb with DAA, PON, and FWA, and AI-driven workloads grow, regional and mid-size service providers are under pressure to scale capacity while controlling cost, power, and complexity. Traditional, vendor-locked architectures make that difficult and expensive to keep up with.

Hosted by the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA), this webinar brought together IP Infusion, RocNet Supply, and Smartoptics to show how you can bring "Tier-1 style" architectures into your network without paying the Tier-1 tax or getting locked into a single vendor stack. We walked through a practical, end-to-end architecture from core to home, highlighted real-world fabric options in use today, and explained why IP over DWDM with ZR/ZR+ optics has become a mainstream, every-operator technology.

You will see how an open, integrated solution can let a small team manage what used to require a building full of engineers, while staying ready for the next wave of bandwidth growth and AI traffic.

What you will take away

• A practical, end-to-end open architecture from core to home
• Real-world fabric options that regional and mid-size operators run today
• Why IP over DWDM with ZR/ZR+ coherent optics is now an every-operator technology
• How a small team can run a Tier-1 style network without the Tier-1 cost or vendor lock-in

Who should watch

CTOs, VPs of Engineering and Operations, and senior network leaders at service providers who need to scale aggregation and transport cost-effectively over the next 3 to 5 years.

Watch the replay

The Fiber Broadband Association hosts the recording. Open it from the FBA resource library. A short form gives you access to the video and the slides.