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Building scalable AI cloud interconnects with SRv6 + 3 min Q&A#

@Scale: Networking 2026 digest Program Core pick 25 August 2026

Abstract

Alexey Gorovoy (Nebius)

  • Why: AI-cloud tenants need predictable bandwidth into their virtual networks and services that behave identically from the virtual edge out to the WAN. Nebius' answer — SRv6 as the single architectural building block across both domains — removes the protocol-translation seam that plagues multi-domain interconnects. Directly relevant to the PM's cloud, interconnect, and segment-routing interests.
  • What: Nebius' evolving architecture for customer cloud interconnects: SRv6 bridges the virtual cloud environment with the physical network edge, enabling end-to-end VPN and traffic-engineering services without protocol translation between datacenter and WAN domains, with latest implementation experience shared. (from abstract only)
  • How: SRv6 network programming — segment-encoded service instructions — applied uniformly from the cloud edge across datacenter and WAN, so one forwarding architecture carries customer VPNs and traffic engineering end to end instead of stitching per-domain protocols.
  • Where applicable: Nebius' AI cloud — a single-operator, SRv6-capable fabric is required end to end, so it is operator-specific. The unifying pattern (one overlay architecture across domains instead of DC/WAN protocol stitching) applies to any provider or large enterprise building multi-domain interconnects.