SRv6 Enables Scalable AI Network Infrastructure

Network engineers and service providers report growing SRv6 adoption since Cisco's early work (2012) and IETF standardization in 2017, with hundreds of projects deployed or planned globally. SRv6's IPv6-native, source-routing model now aims to address AI infrastructure challenges—highly synchronized GPU elephant flows, bursty congestion, and cross-datacenter scale—by enabling deterministic path placement, simplified operations, and advanced traffic engineering for large-scale model training.