Charter Communications’ telecom Spectrum will demonstrate new capabilities for its Edge Compute Infrastructure at a trade show this week, the company announced on Monday.
Specifically, Spectrum will demonstrate how the company is using NVIDIA-accelerated computing platforms to support artificial intelligence workloads closer to end users and connected devices.
Spectrum said the expansion of artificial intelligence into physical-world applications is increasing demand for low-latency compute infrastructure. The company said applications involving robots, sensors, real-time video and secure personal data require faster processing in locations where geographic distance can create too much delay.
To support those use cases, Spectrum said it has begun activating computing power across its network, extending distributed compute capacity to more than 1,000 smaller facilities already embedded in its existing infrastructure. The company said the footprint places compute capacity within 10 milliseconds of 500 million devices in homes and businesses across the U.S.
Spectrum’s dge Compute Infrastructure combines the company’s high-capacity fiber network and distributed footprint of powered edge data centers with NVIDIA accelerated computing, bringing AI infrastructure closer to where data is created and decisions are made.
NVIDIA is one of the computer component makers that has seen the strongest uptick in business thanks to the artificial intelligence craze, which has pushed consumer hardware prices higher as companies siphon off much-needed memory and storage for their artificial intelligence data centers and applications.
NVIDIA is one of the computer component makers that has seen the strongest uptick in business thanks to the artificial intelligence craze, which has pushed consumer hardware prices higher as companies siphon off much-needed memory and storage for their artificial intelligence data centers and applications.
At SCTE TechExpo this week, Spectrum will feature demonstrations developed through collaborations with Cast AI, HP, Hydra Host, NVIDIA and World Wide Technology.
Spectrum said the demonstrations are intended to show how edge networking, distributed compute and accelerated AI infrastructure can support cloud, enterprise and customer applications across multiple industries.
