Higher Education Network Infrastructure in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence workloads are testing the limits of higher education IT networks. Students and staff crave fluid, uninterrupted wireless access, which requires savvy oversight of the wired infrastructure that holds campus networks together. “Networks can be idling for quite some time, and all of a sudden, everything spikes,” says Dan DeBacker, chief product officer for infrastructure at Extreme Networks. Whether the spike comes from AI learning, AI inference or unexpected AI use cases, higher education network admins need agility to keep everybody connected. “Though most institutions…