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Optics was instrumental in building the Internet—and will be crucial in an AI-driven world#

Netnod Tech Meeting 2025 digest Program Adjacent pick 9 October 2025

Recording

Magnus Grenfeldt — Smartoptics

Play the recording: Optics was instrumental in building the Internet—and will be crucial in an AI-driven world

  • Why: Optics is core PM territory, but this session is a vendor presentation with no published abstract, slides, or source text — likely a Smartoptics DWDM product-lens view of the AI build-out.
  • What: Unknown beyond the title's thesis: optical transport as a historical Internet enabler and a future AI-driven one.
  • How / Where applicable: Not determinable from the program. Listed as adjacent rather than core precisely because there is no way to verify substance over pitch; the FLEXOPTIX talk (Core, above) is the optics session with actual data. No abstract or materials published; assessed from title and speaker affiliation only.