A panel of industry experts from Vodafone, BT, CityFibre, Red Hat and HPE Networking assess the readiness of telco transport networks for AI workloads, examining end-to-end infrastructure capabilities from access networks to datacentre interconnects. They explore the fundamental differences between AI training and inference requirements, the investment challenges facing European operators and the need for deterministic network performance. They also reveal how AI is changing network economics and architecture, the importance of traffic engineering, and whether current networks can deliver the latency and sustained capacity that AI applications demand.

Broadcast live 19 May 2026