It goes without saying that the pace in which the Covid-19 pandemic took hold did not allow for network operators to go capex crazy by laying fiber infrastructure like there was no tomorrow. Other means of coping with insane bandwidth traffic spikes were implemented, such as calling in specialist technology suppliers and rallying together to agree on widespread bitrate reductions across streaming platforms. For Comcast though, there was another hero in the great network bandwidth crunch of 2020 – artificial intelligence. Details on what makes Comcast’s AI tick are typically vague, leaning our view towards the achievement sounding like a glorified network capacity forecasting tool above a layer of network automation features. Nevertheless, the world’s largest cable operator has given…