Multi-month initiative with Vertical Data demonstrates up to 30% throughput gain and sub-second failover for distributed AI workloads
Dispersive Holdings, Inc., the leader in stealth networking for ultra-secure, high-performance communications, today announced the successful completion of a multi-month pilot with the American Tower Edge Data Center in Raleigh, NC, demonstrating measurable gains in performance, security, and resiliency for Artificial Intelligence and other high-performance workloads at the edge. The initiative, conducted in collaboration with American Tower and Vertical Data, combined American Tower’s data center infrastructure, Vertical Data’s high-density GPU compute platform, and Dispersive’s Trusted Cloud Edge architecture to deliver encrypted, segmented, resilient connectivity across distributed environments.
As global demand for AI accelerates and GPU capacity becomes increasingly constrained, organizations are discovering that hardware availability is only part of the challenge. Securely delivering GPU-powered workloads across hybrid data center, edge, and cloud environments remains complex, costly, and operationally fragmented. The pilot demonstrates how secure transport architecture can enable distributed GPU-as-a-Service deployments without increasing architectural complexity, addressing a critical gap faced by neocloud and emerging GPUaaS providers.
Key Insights at a Glance
- Performance Improvement: Benchmark testing against conventional secure networking approaches demonstrated up to 30 percent throughput improvement using Dispersive’s tunnel-free, multi-path secure transport fabric.
- Resilience Enhancement: The architecture achieved sub-second autonomous failover, ensuring workload continuity even during network disruptions.
- Cost Reduction Potential: Integrating Dispersive into edge-based GPUaaS environments can reduce total cost of ownership by an estimated 25 to 40 percent compared to conventional layered networking and security architectures.
- Security Advancement: Enhanced traffic segmentation and protection against data interception and lateral movement were validated, demonstrating that high performance and advanced security can coexist in production-grade AI environments.
Solving the Neocloud Connectivity Gap
Hyperscale cloud providers operate private backbone networks and dark fiber infrastructure to move AI traffic securely and efficiently. In contrast, many neocloud and emerging GPU-as-a-Service providers rely on public internet transport, introducing variability in performance, resiliency, and security. This creates a growing need for secure, high-throughput edge connectivity that does not require hyperscaler-scale infrastructure investment. “Global demand for GPU capacity is accelerating faster than infrastructure can keep up,” said Rajiv Pimplaskar, CEO of Dispersive. “As AI workloads move to the edge, neoclouds and emerging GPUaaS providers face a critical gap: they don’t have hyperscaler-scale backbones to securely move that traffic. Dispersive enables them to embed secure, high-performance transport directly into their infrastructure and unlock scalable AI delivery without the cost and complexity of building private fiber networks.” The pilot validates that Dispersive’s Trusted Cloud Edge architecture can provide neocloud providers with the secure transport capabilities previously available only to the largest technology companies.
Benchmark Results: Performance and Security Coexist
The multi-month pilot subjected Dispersive’s architecture to rigorous benchmark testing against conventional secure networking approaches. Results demonstrated up to 30 percent throughput improvement, sub-second autonomous failover, and enhanced traffic segmentation with protection against data interception and lateral movement. These findings carry significant implications for organizations deploying AI workloads across distributed environments, where network performance directly impacts GPU utilization and training efficiency. “Edge AI is reshaping infrastructure demand,” said Jim Poole, Vice President of Product Development for Edge Data Centers at American Tower. “Enterprises and neocloud providers need low-latency environments that can securely support high-density GPU workloads at the edge. By combining our Edge Data Centers with advanced secure transport architectures, we are enabling a new class of AI deployments that extend into regional markets.” The ability to maintain security without compromising performance addresses a longstanding tension in distributed computing architecture.
Cost Economics of Distributed GPU Deployments
Beyond technical validation, the pilot demonstrated compelling economic advantages for neocloud and GPUaaS providers. By eliminating separate VPN overlays, dedicated security appliances, and fragmented policy enforcement across data center and cloud environments, Dispersive simplifies hybrid AI deployment while strengthening protection across the full workload path. The estimated 25 to 40 percent reduction in total cost of ownership compared to conventional layered architectures enables providers to offer competitive pricing while maintaining margins. For emerging GPUaaS providers in particular, this architecture offers a secure, resilient alternative to building or leasing private backbone infrastructure, delivering improved latency, higher throughput, and stronger protection without the capital intensity of dark fiber deployments. “Scaling GPU infrastructure for AI requires both performance and trust,” said Hamid Djam, Chief Technology Officer at Vertical Data. “By integrating Dispersive’s secure transport fabric directly into our deployment model, we simplify how customers secure data moving between edge and cloud environments. This allows us to focus on delivering high-density GPU capacity, while ensuring connectivity is encrypted, resilient, and seamless.”
Future Outlook
The successful pilot at American Tower’s Raleigh Edge Data Center provides a replicable model for how neocloud providers and enterprises can scale AI infrastructure without replicating hyperscaler economics. As AI workloads continue migrating toward edge locations to reduce latency and comply with data residency requirements, the need for secure, high-performance transport will only intensify. The 30 percent throughput improvement and sub-second failover demonstrated in the pilot suggest that organizations no longer need to choose between security and performance. The estimated 25 to 40 percent TCO reduction also positions Dispersive’s approach as economically compelling for providers operating on thinner margins than hyperscalers. For American Tower, the initiative expands the value proposition of its edge data center footprint beyond colocation to include integrated secure connectivity services. As enterprises, neocloud providers, mobile network operators, and broadband providers expand AI initiatives, secure and resilient transport becomes foundational to scaling GPU infrastructure.
Conclusion
Dispersive’s pilot with American Tower and Vertical Data demonstrates that secure, high-performance GPU-as-a-Service at the edge is achievable without hyperscaler-scale infrastructure investment. With up to 30 percent throughput improvement, sub-second failover, and estimated 25 to 40 percent cost reduction compared to conventional approaches, the architecture addresses the critical connectivity gap facing neocloud providers. For organizations scaling AI workloads across distributed environments, this represents a viable path to performance and security combined.
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About Dispersive Holdings, Inc.
Dispersive Holdings, Inc. (Dispersive) delivers stealth networking for ultra-secure, high-performance communications. Inspired by military-grade spread spectrum techniques, Dispersive’s patented multipath software obfuscates and splits traffic across dynamically changing channels, ensuring networks remain virtually invisible and quantum-resilient by design. Trusted by defense, intelligence, critical infrastructure, and high-security enterprises, Dispersive is redefining how secure connectivity is done. Learn more at www.dispersive.io.
About American Tower
American Tower, one of the largest global REITs, is a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate with a portfolio of nearly 149,000 communications sites and a highly interconnected footprint of U.S. data center facilities. For more information about American Tower, please visit www.americantower.com.
About Vertical Data
Vertical Data designs, deploys, and manages advanced infrastructure platforms purpose-built for artificial intelligence, data analytics, and digital transformation. With a focus on performance, scale, and simplicity, Vertical Data helps enterprises unlock the full potential of their AI and data-driven initiatives. Learn more at www.verticaldata.io.
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