BT reimagines connectivity for the future with AI Hypercomputer
9Featured in this video: Colin Bannon, Chief Technology Officer, BT
Executive summary: BT (British Telecom), a global telecommunications company, is reimagining how customers connect and communicate by creating AI-driven, intelligent networks. Partnering with Google Cloud and using AI Hypercomputer, BT has improved operational resilience, network security, and service delivery at scale. With innovative advancements such as quantum-safe networking, autonomic systems, and AI-ready networks, BT ensures its customers remain prepared for the next generation of challenges, including the explosion of AI workflows. This transformation is changing what it means to be connected, enabling users to access seamless, secure, and agile services from anywhere in the world.
Challenge: Businesses today are under pressure to keep pace with technological advancements and evolving customer expectations while maintaining the highest security standards. For BT, this means securely integrating AI into its workflows to better manage complex, distributed networks. To do so, BT needed a solution that combined observability, agility, and programmability to power the future of connectivity.
Solution: With Google Cloud, BT is building an AI-driven, AI-ready network designed to handle modern challenges and the ones still to come. This roadmap includes developing forward-looking solutions like its Global Fabric product, which integrates with Cloud WAN to create self-healing and programmable network systems, and reinforcing data security with quantum-safe technologies. By blending mobile and fixed networks into a single, seamless service and partnering with leading technology vendors, BT is ensuring its network is adaptable and secure for years to come.
Result: BT’s AI-enabled network infrastructure sets a new standard for connectivity worldwide. By leveraging full-stack observability and advanced AI capabilities, the company is providing a smarter, faster, and safer network for Fortune 1000 companies and beyond. Customers benefit from reduced latency, secure data transmission, and seamless connectivity, no matter where they are.
Highlights and key takeaways from our interview with Colin Bannon, Chief Technology Officer at BT:
→ ““From a networking perspective, slow is the new down. What we really needed is full-stack observability, a network that is intelligent, self-healing, agile, autonomic, and programmable, that understands the traffic that's running across it and is able to deal with the new challenges that AI workflows and highly distributed workloads are doing on that.”
→“We're really excited to announce a partnership of how we're blending our networks together to deliver brilliant outcomes with Google Cloud and with Cloud WAN.”
→ “We need to be relevant to what’s next for our customers. We are building networks that are ready to handle new challenges that AI brings to make sure that our customers can deliver the outcomes that they need, but also make it safe.”
Google Cloud products used: Google Cloud, AI Hypercomputer
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