Webscale companies and cloud services are at the heart of communication’s future, and will need to evolve their data center fabrics and IP and optical WANs to meet the demands of metaverse technologies such as AR/VR, 8K video, cloud gaming, digital twins, blockchain, IoT, and autonomous operations. To scale, assure, and secure the connection from end to end, optical transport, IP WAN, and data center fabrics must work together in smarter and more complex ways, requiring orchestration.
