Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform everyday lives by dramatically improving productivity. To make this promise a reality, datacenter fabrics and interconnects need optical networking technologies to support AI’s lossless and low-latency datapath requirements. Service providers must both modernize their networks to take full advantage of this opportunity and use AI technology themselves to help manage their network lifecycles. Network operators can use AI to reduce operational efforts and save time, while also providing proactive and preventative approaches to streamline their business. This ebook explores rationale and methodology for building optical networks to support AI and highlights how AI can address and simplify scaling challenges as networks expand to meet AI-driven capacity demand.