Managed data transport for autonomous training

You are not buying site connectivity. You are buying assured data delivery.

Autonomous machines generate enormous volumes of training data at remote sites, all of it bound for a small number of known destinations. OSI moves that data as one engineered system: site edge, dedicated transport, a private network, an engineered aggregation core, and private interconnection to your cloud and GPU environments, under a single SLA with one accountable operator.

1 TB per hour
of data from every machine that is running
Two destinations
your cloud environment and the GPU environment
One operator
responsible from the site to the training systems

The problem

Many sites, enormous amounts of data, two places it has to go.

Each autonomous machine generates on the order of one terabyte per hour of operation. A dense site can approach one hundred thirty gigabits per second at full concurrency, and the governing constraint is not circuit speed: it is the maximum permissible age of data at the training destination. Moving one high-density shift of data requires roughly 131 Gbps in an eight-hour window, 87 Gbps in twelve, or 44 Gbps in twenty-four, before overhead, headroom, and recovery.

131 Gbps
eight-hour window
87 Gbps
twelve-hour window
44 Gbps
twenty-four-hour window

Illustrative planning values; each site's capacity tier is set from measured behavior in its Site Deployment Plan.

Why ordinary internet does not work here

The internet is built to reach everything. You need data to arrive by a deadline.

Performance.

A dedicated internet port guarantees the loop, not the journey: beyond the provider's edge, delivery depends on shared interconnection nobody in your program controls. Bulk throughput collapses non-linearly with loss on long paths, precisely at peak.

Accountability.

No carrier warrants the internet path to your cloud or GPU provider. When ingest slows, fault isolation across three to five networks becomes your problem.

Security.

Every internet circuit is a public attachment and a hardened edge stack to patch and audit at every site, indefinitely. The private design carries no public edge on the customer path at any site.

Convergence.

Every added site sends its data to the same destinations, so internet paths fan the whole fleet into the same unowned choke points, and all sites degrade together at peak.

Uncontrolled vs Engineered Convergence EVERY ARCHITECTURE HAS BOTTLENECKSthe distinction is whether they are owned, measured, and expandable, or merely encountered downstreamINTERNET ARCHITECTURE10–20 routed hops across 3–5 separately owned networks; every hop is a queue and a policy pointSite 1Site 2Site 3Site 4Site 5carrier accesscarrier coretransit provider(s)peeringcloud / GPU edgeCloud / GPUarrival time: unknownred rings: unowned choke points. Each handoff between networks is sized commercially, congested at peak, and fixed on someone else’s timeline.OSI ARCHITECTUREengineered circuits: site demarc, private network, aggregation core, destination cross-connect. Every segment contracted, owned, observable.Site 1Site 2Site 3Site 4Site 5AGGREGATION COREA/B · owned · measurednon-blocking, contractedupgraded ahead of demandCloud / GPUarrival time: contractedOne handoff that matters, and it is yours: known demand, contracted capacity, one accountable operator.

Internet architecture: convergence occurs wherever third-party networks happen to meet. OSI architecture: convergence occurs where you have contracted it to occur.

What arrives late is not packets. It is GPU schedules and program timelines.


It also lowers your cloud bill

Data that leaves the cloud on a private connection is billed at a lower rate.

Training reads datasets back out of cloud storage again and again. Over the public internet the cloud provider bills its internet rate. Over the private path it bills roughly a quarter of that. The difference lands on your own cloud invoice, every month, and OSI never touches it.

See the numbers
~$0.02 / GB
reading data back over the private path
~$0.05 to $0.09 / GB
reading the same data back over the internet
~$177,000
saved in one month at one busy site, illustrative

Cloud transfer rates shown are published list prices.


One SLA
site edge to destination handoff
Zero
public internet attachments on the data path
Week 1
training data begins moving
Up to 100 Gbps
by tower-fed wireless where fiber cannot reach