DCI Architecture Promoted by the IOWN Global Forum
Hiroshi Yoshida · NTT technical review · 2024
The IOWN Global Forum has proposed an information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, called data-centric infrastructure (DCI), that leverages the high-speed and low-latency features of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network All-Photonics Network (IOWN APN).This article describes the DCI on the basis of the Data-Centric Infrastructure Functional Architecture version 2.0 released by the forum in March 2023 and explains the advantages of the DCI in tackling challenges in scalability, performance, and power consumption that confront current ICT infrastructures.It is hoped that this article will help readers deepen their understanding of the DCI.