
A. E. Natarajan
SVP Engineering at Juniper Networks; former EVP Chief Development Officer; expert in AI-native routing and network infrastructure for large-scale deployments.
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Jun 4, 2026
Are our networks ready for AI?
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A. E. NatarajanGUEST
Let's assume that you were in the age of the internet or the cloud, and you had a SaaS service or a streaming service, and you wanted to do something about it.

A. E. NatarajanGUEST
You wanted to watch a movie, you wanted to watch some recording, you wanted to watch something pulled down from there.

A. E. NatarajanGUEST
You would send a small pile of bits over to the server side or to the cloud application, and it'll stream a huge amount of data to you.

A. E. NatarajanGUEST
So the data was asymmetric pretty much, and the network architectures catered to that.

A. E. NatarajanGUEST
Your upload speeds from the consumer was always less than the download speeds that you would get from consumers, and they would rate themselves based on that.

A. E. NatarajanGUEST
They would always say, "Hey, you got 10 megs of download or one gig of download," or something like that, but they never talk about the upload speeds because it was always meager.
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11:25Michael BirdHOST
So as AI continues to grow, what's the most important piece of advice that you can think for organizations, service providers who are adopting this sort of AI native architecture into their systems and infrastructure?