New Commercial Partnerships and a Live Robotics Demo Highlight the Advantages of Moving AI Processing Into Local Infrastructure

Key Takeaways:

• Spectrum has begun to spread computing power across its network, with the ability to reach more than 1,000 smaller owned and operated “edge” data centers already built into its infrastructure – putting substantial capacity within 10 milliseconds of 500 million connected devices in homes and businesses across the U.S.
• Spectrum is enabling new AI applications with leading AI innovators Cast AI, HP and Hydra Host, marking an important milestone in the commercial adoption of its Edge Compute Infrastructure (ECI) platform powered by NVIDIA.
• Cast AI, HP and World Wide Technology (WWT) will join Spectrum to demonstrate how Spectrum’s network enables low-latency AI workloads, including a robotics demonstration from WWT in the booth.

STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As AI moves from answering prompts to controlling physical machines – robots, sensors, real-time video, secure personal data – speed stops being a nice-to-have and becomes mission critical. An instruction sent to a robot’s “brain” in a data center 500 miles away simply arrives too late. Spectrum is addressing this problem with its Edge Compute Infrastructure (ECI) enhanced with NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms.

Spectrum has begun to activate computing power across its network, with the ability to reach over 1,000 smaller facilities already embedded in its existing infrastructure – placing distributed compute capacity within 10 milliseconds of 500 million devices in homes and businesses across the U.S. By combining its high-capacity fiber network and distributed footprint of powered edge data centers with NVIDIA accelerated computing, ECI brings AI infrastructure closer to where data is generated and decisions are made.

At SCTE TechExpo 26, attendees can visit Spectrum’s booth to experience demonstrations stemming from close collaborations with Cast AI, HP and World Wide Technology (WWT), each illustrating how edge network capabilities are advancing cloud, AI and customer applications on Spectrum’s ECI platform. Spectrum also is working with Hydra Host to commercialize its AI Factory “Operating System” on ECI. These collaborations demonstrate Spectrum’s focus on building the distributed infrastructure that supports AI and data-driven technologies for a range of industries.

Cast AI will highlight its OMNI technology integrating NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra-based accelerated computing platforms, embedded, owned, hosted and operated by Spectrum on its ECI platform, into diverse hyperscale cloud environments. OMNI extends these GPUs natively into its multi-cloud compute fabric, where they appear as standard cluster nodes alongside major cloud provider capacity. Connectivity for this AI infrastructure is delivered through Spectrum’s network, demonstrating how deep integration of compute and connectivity at the edge can advance AI innovation.

HP will showcase HP Z Boost, an innovative solution that shifts GPU access from hardware-bound to on-demand, accelerating rendering, visualization, and AI workloads through shared GPU resources. By delivering performance when and where it is needed, HP Z Boost helps organizations maximize GPU utilization while reducing infrastructure inefficiencies. HP will also demonstrate ZGX Nano and ZGX Fury, AI Stations purpose-built for enterprise edge AI development, enabling organizations to deploy and scale AI workloads closer to where data is created while reducing reliance on the cloud.

Hydra Host and Spectrum have an agreement allowing Hydra’s AI Factory platform to use capacity that is owned, hosted and operated by Spectrum on its ECI. As a global AI compute provider serving companies in need of GPU resources, Hydra Host will help extend the reach of Spectrum’s edge compute capabilities to organizations looking for advanced AI infrastructure solutions.

Humanoid Robot Demonstration Highlights the Intersection of AI, Robotics and Connectivity

As AI moves beyond digital tasks to influencing and interacting with the physical world, the need for immediate, precise interactions with compute becomes critical. WWT, NVIDIA and Spectrum are working together to advance distributed edge AI infrastructure for physical AI, combining Spectrum’s ECI with WWT’s system-integration expertise to help enable new applications such as robotics and industrial automation. WWT will exhibit a Unitree G1 humanoid robot in Spectrum’s booth, demonstrating advanced automation and kinetic AI as it performs dynamic tasks that showcase how edge compute enables scaled, low-latency, private and secure processing for next-generation robotics.

Together, these collaborations show what happens when AI moves from responding to prompts to acting in the physical world: the advantage shifts to whoever already has computing power close to where people live and work. That’s the infrastructure Spectrum has spent years building – and SCTE TechExpo 26 attendees can see it in action at the Spectrum booth (#B335) on the show floor.

About Spectrum
Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR), the leading broadband and video company in the nation and the fastest growing mobile provider in its footprint, with services available to more than 70 million homes and small to large businesses across 45 states. Founded in 1993, Charter has evolved from providing cable TV to streaming, and from high-speed Internet to a converged broadband, WiFi and mobile experience. Over the Spectrum Fiber Broadband Network and supported by our 100% U.S.-based employees, the Company offers Seamless Connectivity and Entertainment with Spectrum Internet®, Mobile, TV and Voice products.  

More information can be found at corporate.charter.com.  

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