Greg Leonardo (@gleonardo.bsky.social)

Photonic vs. Electronic Switching: A New Era in Cloud Tech Let's talk about possibilities............... For more than a decade, cloud networking has evolved through predictable layers of iteration: faster routers, larger fabrics, smarter SDN controllers, denser edge footprints, and more globally consistent SLAs. Yet one foundational element has barely budged: the reliance on electronic switching at the core of cloud providers' backbones. As workloads grow increasingly latency-sensitive — real-time AI inference across federated regions, remote surgical telepresence, hyper-distributed training pipelines, global multiplayer AR systems — major cloud platforms face a bottleneck that software-defined networking alone can’t break: the physical limits of electrons. https://clouddailywire.com/2026/01/photonic-vs-electronic-switching-a-new-era-in-cloud-tech/