AI & Cloud Infrastructure Readiness

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most demanding applications that networks must support. Unlike traditional web browsing or video streaming, AI introduces distinct requirements centered on upload capacity, minimal latency, and steadiness under load.  Ookla Research measures  real-world peformance by combining Speedtest Intelligence® data with cloud infrastructure latency metrics. 

 

Our research in this space includes the Beyond Download Speed benchmark, which evaluates 5G mobile networks against actual AI workloads across upload capacity, multi-server latency, loaded latency, cloud infrastructure latency, and jitter. As AI use shifts from simple text queries to voice assistants, live camera sharing, generated media, and background agents running continuously, each with different demands on the network, we continue to build the definition of what "AI-ready" actually means — measured independently, against how people actually use these tools.

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