China Unicom is also expanding its AI infrastructure, with more than 1.1 million data center cabinets and computing capacity reaching 45 EFLOPS
In sum – what to know:
AI spending rises – Over 35% of 2026 capex allocated to computing infrastructure...
John Bonello, director at Vecta Labs, told RCR Wireless News that the pre-assembled mobile masts for UK carrier O2 are designed to scale across different deployment scenarios
In sum – what to know:
Faster deployment – Pre-assembled masts cut installation time...
Coherent optics, photonic line systems, and software agents are helping cloud providers and telco companies to manage the explosive AI workload demands on fiber networks – across cutting-edge interconnect systems, upgraded longhaul infrastructure, and emerging mobile access networks. As...
The Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) Ecosystem Foundation challenges AI-RAN gatekeeping that has been stalling the open RAN movement
Opinions on open RAN (radio access network) are mixed. On the surface, the movement looks less alive now than it...
Xsight Labs’ programmable X2 switch tapped by SpaceX to push throughput beyond 1 Tbps
My home airport is XNA, so I spend a lot of time on United regional jets. Fortunately, the carrier is rapidly equipping its ERJ175s with Starlink...
Telecom and enterprise AI systems are beginning to negotiate and provision network slices
The telecommunications industry is rapidly moving toward a future where network connectivity is traded as dynamically as cloud computing. Instead of static contracts and manual provisioning, the...
The telecommunications industry has made remarkable progress in expanding mobile infrastructure to support the demands of a hyper-connected world. Operators continue to invest heavily in network modernization, densification, and next-generation technologies to deliver faster speeds, lower latency, and greater...
Energy efficiency has become one of the most pressing operational and sustainability challenges facing mobile network operators. Sarat Puthenpura at the Open Networking Foundation, discusses the findings for open RAN systems.
Energy efficiency has become one of the most pressing...
The new tool is a single part of the operator’s grand plan to establish autonous networks with high levels of AI automation by 2030
In sum – what to know:
AI ops support – NOA assists engineers with troubleshooting, diagnostics, and...
As the industry's largest annual gathering for connectivity and telecommunications, MWC serves as a bellwether for where wireless technology is heading. Among the many themes on display at the 2026 event – from 6G visions to AI-powered networks –...
AI adoption in the telecom industry is accelerating rapidly, with AIOps and AI-RAN emerging as strategic priorities. Yet many telecom network operators remain stuck in AI pilot phases due to a lack of trust, fragmented data, operational readiness gaps...
Kannan Raj, architect, Oracle pulled back the curtain on the three dimensions of connectivity that define AI-era networking, and how optical innovation is enabling the globe-spanning AI network fabric
One of the tech industry’s biggest worries was in full...
Radisys CEO Arun Bhikshesvaran sat down with Rakuten Mobile’s Chief AI and Data Officer Sachin Verma for a “Coffee, Chai & Chat” podcast at MWC Barcelona. They discussed how AI-enhanced digital services, and the ways in which Rakuten Mobile...
The companies’ collaboration has yielded agentic AI blueprints, RAN digital twins and a strategy for moving customers toward autonomous networks and AI-native 6G wireless networks.
VIAVI CTO Sameh Yamany and NVIDIA senior director of telecom marketing Kanika Atri spoke to...
Post-Infinera integration, the Finnish vendor’s growth target is data center interconnect
Nokia’s optical pitch this year at OFC was crystalline, more intentional, and landed somewhere between breakthrough and inevitable.
A new building block-based approach
A diverse set of new applications have emerged...
The trial used Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics over an unregenerated link
In sum – what to know:
Record distance – 800 Gb/s transmitted over 16,608 km without regeneration on a transpacific subsea link.
Higher capacity – The trial achieved...
The tech is not the story (stupid!), says Siemens; it is a part of a solution, of course – just like IoT, and just like AI. Industrial enterprises have their own problems, and don't buy the hype anyway; but...
At OFC, Telefónica’s CTO outlined its strategy to reverse persistent revenue challenges
In sum — what to know:
Modernization focus: Telefónica is eyeing a combination of strategies to modernize the network in an effort to generate new revenue streams
Level 4 automation:...
Major carriers are using Nvidia's "AI Grid" to repurpose their networks
In sum - what we know:
A distributed architecture - Nvidia is branding "AI grids" as geographically distributed infrastructure designed to monetize AI inference at the network edge.
Proven performance gains - Validation...
The tower JV between TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone builds on a preliminary RAN sharing agreement signed earlier this year
In sum – what to know:
6,000 towers planned – TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone aim to expand tower infrastructure to...
The solution combines AT&T’s IoT core network and Cisco’s mobility services platform, allowing localized data routing, predictable performance, and secure connectivity for enterprise and industrial environments
In sum – what to know:
Edge networks – AT&T and Cisco integrate AI inference...
As cellular IoT deployments grow from thousands to millions, the limits of hardware, not software, come into focus, writes IoT connectivity provider Onomondo. Until connectivity infrastructure evolves to adapt to constrained devices – rather than forcing them into legacy...
The partnership between Huawei and du also includes work on AI-based network management and automation to improve efficiency and spectrum utilization
In sum – what to know:
5G-A speed target – du and Huawei plan Phase-2 upgrades to deliver peak 10Gbps...
Jeff Heynen, VP at Dell’Oro Group, told RCR Wireless that cable infrastructure upgrades will play a central role in the recovery of the broadband access equipment market this year
In sum – what to know:
Market rebound – Broadband access...
Christel Heydemann, CEO at Orange Group, emphasized the company’s internal use of its own platforms
In sum – what to know:
Sovereign enterprise – Orange Business launched collaboration, AI, and voice solutions built on European infrastructure, targeting data control and regulatory...
