The Hyperscaler Playbook: Building an AI-Ready Network for The Enterprise

Hyperscalers have redefined what modern networking looks like, and now those same principles are reshaping how enterprises build for the AI era.In this episode, Nick sits down with Marc Austin from Hedgehog to explore how open networking, SONiC, and cloud native automation are converging to make hyperscaler level networking accessible to organizations of any size.Marc shares Hedgehog’s origin story, why SONiC has finally matured for enterprise scale, and how cloud style UX and zero touch lifecycle management remove the historical barriers to open networking. They explore the rise of AI Networking as a new category, the complexity of GPU fabrics, and how automation and performance tuning can even outperform some NVIDIA reference benchmarks.From multi-vendor freedom to real world AI cloud deployments operated by a single DevOps engineer, this conversation reveals the technologies and design principles that are powering the next generation of private AI infrastructure.If you are building for AI, rethinking your network strategy, or interested in the future of open networking, this episode shows what it really takes to network like a hyperscaler.New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified. See you next week!