Per Narvinger replaces Börje Ekholm as chief executive at Ericsson, signalling strategic continuity in the Swedish vendor’s focus on 5G execution and operator-led growth – thrown into relief as old …
Per Narvinger replaces Börje Ekholm as chief executive at Ericsson, signalling strategic continuity in the Swedish vendor’s focus on 5G execution and operator-led growth – thrown into relief as old …
According to Helen Xenos, senior director of portfolio marketing at Ciena, selecting the appropriate optical technology depends on the customer’s primary constraint In sum – what to know: AI reshapes …
Communications service providers are currently focused on the practical use of AI to reduce opex; the next step is leveraging AI to create new revenue streams Telecommunications infrastructure is being …
As nations race to build sovereign AI capabilities, successful strategies are converging on a common formula: control critical bottlenecks. The real differentiator is no longer ambition or spending, but the …
The Nvidia-powered AI-RAN deal moves the partners’ year-long collaboration to deployment In sum – what we know: Nokia and Indosat have signed a strategic network modernization and AI-RAN rollout agreement …
Speaking during a recent RCR webinar, AFL’s Noah Taylor said that as hyperscalers expand AI deployments, the networks linking data centers are becoming increasingly important alongside the facilities themselves In …
Christophe Fouquet’s criticism of the EU’s evolving Chips Act is less an attack on industrial policy than a challenge to where sovereignty can realistically be exercised in a global AI …
Corning says fiber demand “is not slowing down anytime soon”, noting that the company has prepared for continued growth and has additional agreements in its pipeline In sum – what …
European telcos are rebuilding scale in their fixed networks through acquisitions, joint ventures, and wholesale models to reduce fiber overlap, improve economics, and prep the AI-edge. In sum – what …
Spending patterns in the optical market are increasingly shaped by hyperscalers rather than traditional telecom operators – says Ciena, Nokia, and Dell’Oro on an RCR webinar. In sum – what …
The UK government’s £1.1bn AI hardware plan anchors a new national compute strategy, including a £750m supercomputer in Edinburgh and targeted support for UK chip startups, alongside major private commitments …
Hyperscalers are focused on monetizing their AI compute investments, which continues to direct a larger share of spending towards network infrastructure, observes Ciena chief Gary Smith. In sum – what …
Orange Business is advancing its enterprise strategy through sovereign and secure data management and services. A new French hospital deployment shows the model in use – but everything from the …
A reciprocal infrastructure deal between Telstra and Google, a new India-Singapore route from FLAG, and a record-breaking fiber transmission test from Japan’s NICT all point to the same thing – …
Synergy said five neocloud companies are now among the world’s top 30 cloud providers by infrastructure services revenue In sum – what to know: Growth moderating – Synergy expects cloud …
Softbank’s €75bn plan to build 5GW of AI data center capacity in France is being hailed in Paris as a breakthrough for European digital sovereignty. But the scale of foreign …
The company’s AI Data Center GPU Cloud is intended for customers facing restrictions on transferring data overseas and those seeking infrastructure optimized specifically for the Japanese market In sum – …
Europe is reshaping its digital economy around sovereignty, from satellite spectrum (new post-2027 auction rules for the 2GHz MSS band) and sovereign cloud (Google Cloud picks Telefónica to serve-up hybrid …
Germany’s sovereign cloud push is advancing with Deutsche Telekom and SAP winning a BMDS AI platform tender built on the “Deutschland-Stack”, while Thales expands its Google Cloud-powered sovereign model in …
SpaceX’s IPO filing reads like a techno-futurist manifesto – but then that’s its business: a vertically integrated empire of rockets, satellites, and AI infrastructure to scale intelligence globally – and …
Simon Bullough, CTO of ITM Power, said that the company is in discussions with potential customers about how its electrolysis technology could fit into data-center energy systems In...
Controlling sudden power spikes and transient load swings in volatile GPU workloads Greenflash, an H.I.G. Capital-backed energy platform, recently closed hybrid tax capital and debt financing for Project...
Israel’s operational data center capacity increased from 97MW in the second quarter of 2025 to 121MW in the second quarter of 2026, according to a Cushman & Wakefield...
Virginia had 12,338MW of operational data center capacity at the end of H1 2026, with 7,355MW under construction and a planned pipeline of 39,340MW, according to Cushman &...
Marvell CEO Matthew Murphy said AI workloads are driving more data movement and making efficient connectivity a fundamental constraint on AI infrastructure In sum – what to know...
Combined live, under-construction and planned capacity reached 1.95GW, making Paris EMEA’s third-largest market on that basis, according to a recent report by Cushman & Wakefield In sum –...
AT&T is folding Gigapower and Lumen’s fiber assets into a joint venture half owned by GIP and CPP Investments. The deal shows the different strategic paths AT&T, T-Mobile...
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Assad Noori, executive director and EMEA head of data centres at JLL, told RCRTech that he expects the standardized ratings to increasingly become a way for market participants...
The joint venture will bring together Forged Fiber 37 and Gigapower to accelerate expansion of fiber internet across more U.S. communities.
The province’s government has explicitly positioned Alberta as a destination for AI-driven data center operations through its Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Strategy In sum – what to know...
London has 1.38GW of live data center capacity, with 278MW under construction and 1.5GW committed, according to a Cushman & Wakefield report In sum – what to know...