China has completed the development of an innovative computer network poised to significantly accelerate advancements in artificial intelligence while enabling rapid, reliable, and high-capacity data transmissions nationwide. This groundbreaking project, part of the national research initiative “China Environment for Network Innovations” (CENI), has been likened to a “high-speed railway for computers.”
The announcement of the project’s completion was made at a scientific conference in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, where the headquarters of the Purple Mountain Laboratory—a leading institution that coordinated the effort—is located.
According to Xinhua Daily, CENI is built upon a unique architecture that integrates optical communications with deterministic networking capabilities. This synergy ensures ultra-fast data transmission speeds, minimal latency, and exceptional connection reliability.
Liu Yunjie, the laboratory’s chief scientist and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, stated that the CENI network can operate with zero packet loss and latency below 20 microseconds, even under maximum load. The network spans 13 provinces across more than 13,000 kilometers and supports up to 10,000 deterministic services simultaneously.
CENI is set to become a cornerstone for industrial internet applications, AI model training, and the implementation of the “East Data, West Computing” strategy, which aims to optimize the distribution of the country’s computational resources.
