Generative AI's Bandwidth Revolution: How Telcos Can Thrive Amid Surging Network Demands

This IDC Market Note analyzes how generative AI (GenAI) adoption is driving new bandwidth demands and traffic patterns across service provider broadband networks. As enterprises and consumers embrace GenAI-enabled applications, service providers must upgrade infrastructure to support elastic, low-latency connectivity and distributed architecture. The document offers strategic recommendations for network optimization, highlighting the transformative impact of GenAI on capacity, latency, and throughput requirements in both core and edge networks."As GenAI transforms networks, will service providers keep pace with the tidal wave of bandwidth, latency, and connectivity demands reshaping our digital future?" - Ajeet Das, research director, Telecom Network Infrastructure at IDC