BHP’s long-standing focus on network performance makes it “AI ready”

According to one of its technology superintendents, BHP has a history of enabling low-latency, high-throughput applications at mining sites and entering the AI ​​era with an already well-tuned network infrastructure.

Speaking at Cisco Live in Melbourne, the mining giant’s head of operational technology (OT) networks, Michelle Fernando, said BHP practically already had an “AI-ready infrastructure” due to its focus on network performance in harsh and dynamic mining environments.

“We’ve been tracking every single packet for some time and it’s about low latency, high…