Back in July 2020, artificial intelligence was crowned the savior of Comcast’s fixed network business – preventing internet services from collapsing under the weight of traffic demands during peak lockdown periods. This was made all the more impressive as this AI-based project, called Comcast Octave, was barely out of nappies before the team was told of its sudden network-wide promotion. Almost eight months later, Comcast has released network data revealing the scale of the demands that triggered action stations at team Octave in those fateful few weeks starting March 2020, in order to increase upstream capacity by up to 36% and add 35 Tbps of peak capacity to regional networks, before it was too late. In that time, Comcast has…