> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Accelerating AI growth - URL: https://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/accelerating-ai-growth/ - Published: 2026-07-31T17:03:25.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-14T23:31:28.000Z - Author: Andrew Lovell An idle GPU is money doing nothing. Ciena's report makes the case that your next AI bottleneck won't be compute, it'll be the network underneath it. # Your GPUs are waiting on your network You can buy more GPUs. You can't buy your way out of a network that can't keep up. Capacity, latency, and reliability decide how much of that spend you actually get to use. This report shows what optical networking looks like when it's built to scale with AI, not just alongside it. 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