What if your infrastructure provider acted more like a partner than a platform? In this episode of Voices of Video, Mark Donnigan sits down with Stefan Ideler, CTO and co-founder of i3D.net, to unpack how one of the world’s most advanced networks is rethinking what it means to scale video, gaming, and interactive workloads in a hybrid world. From their roots in ultra-low latency game hosting to powering emerging AI and video workflows, i3D.net has quietly built a global Edge network that does more than move packets. Stefan shares insights on why hybrid cloud is now driven by economics not just flexibility, how the gaming industry’s scaling problems are shaping modern video infrastructure, the role of VPUs, GPUs, and ASICs in the next-gen data center, what it takes to break free from vendor lock-in and cloud cost spirals, and the unexpected role of network cards in AI and security.