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, that landed somewhere between breakthrough and inevitability.
Nokia’s new building block based approach
A diverse set of new applications have emerged in effect of AI,...
The trial used Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics over an unregenerated link
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Record distance – 800 Gb/s transmitted over 16,608 km without regeneration on a transpacific subsea link.
Higher capacity – The trial achieved 18 Tb/s per fiber pair,...
The tower JV between TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone builds on a preliminary RAN sharing agreement signed earlier this year
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6,000 towers planned – TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone aim to expand tower infrastructure to support 5G coverage and capacity...
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
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Market rebound – Broadband access equipment spending is set to...
Nvidia’s trillion-dollar AI infrastructure forecast set the tone at GTC yesterday, framing its AI-RAN partnerships with Nokia and T-Mobile (part of a $2tn industry) as a new frontier for low-latency inference at the edge.
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Robotics platform – Nvidia positions RAN...
At the Autonomous Network Summit during MWC Barcelona 2026, Cyient outlined how autonomy is reshaping network operations for telcos
On the opening day of MWC in Barcelona, Cyient brought together industry leaders, operators, and technology experts to tackle one of telecom’s defining priorities: advancing the...
Global, porgrammable, and dense – from cloud to edge; Verizon Business talked at MWC about how its sees the new AI stack evolving for telcos, and why its investments in backbone fiber, metro access, and private network will link cloud models and inference workloads...
Ericsson’s networks chief Per Narvinger offered a measured view of AI’s impact on telecoms at MWC: fiber may lead the infrastructure boom today, but AI will also shift through the mid-cycle 5G evolution in AI-driven RAN optimisation.
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New traffic –...
While most of the big talk at MWC is about 5G and 6G, the most urgent AI infrastructure work is with fibre-heavy data centre interconnects. Cisco, and certain others, are capitalising on this east-west traffic surge, with mobile and edge networks positioned as a...
Partnerships with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and industrial IoT specialist Geoforce show how AT&T is positioning fibre, edge infrastructure, and enterprise connectivity to support AI workloads from data centre to factory floor.
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Smart factories – AT&T’s new ‘Connected AI’ platform combines...
As fixed wireless access gains fresh momentum worldwide, Mimosa Networks’ unlicensed-spectrum technology is emerging as a strategic complement to fibre and 5G – powering Reliance Jio’s surging AirFiber service and offering global operators a faster and more flexible route to close coverage gaps in...
AT&T is tightening its ties with hyperscale cloud partners as it readies its network for the AI era – embedding last-mile fiber and 5G directly into AWS environments, pushing AI into the RAN, and expanding its edge ecosystem with Microsoft.
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Huawei said that the “networks for AI” concept focuses on adapting optical infrastructure to support AI applications
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Dual AI strategy – Huawei is structuring its optical roadmap around “AI for networks” and “networks for AI,” covering both operational optimization and...
AI is already a scaled, mobile-native workload, which is forcing networks to evolve from SLA-driven capacity models to deterministic, programmable architectures that connect data centres, transport, and the edge. So says Nokia chief Justin Hotard at MWC in Barcelona.
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New...
With labor shortages and project overruns plaguing broadband construction, agentic AI is emerging as a tool for discipline and timely execution
In a recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show, the New York Times columnist said, “I think that period in which we are always...
Once in defensive mode and fighting decline, Lumen Technologies has re-emerged with a radically simplified strategy, a repaired balance sheet, and a bold claim to be critical infrastructure for the AI economy — as enterprise network spending shifts from connecting offices to connecting data...
As the industry gears up for its biggest annual show at MWC, it is (perhaps) worth looking back at another major 2026 telco gathering: PTC in Hawaii in January. Once a regional telecom meet, PTC has evolved into a global forum for AI infrastructure,...
Europe’s five biggest mobile operators – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM, and Vodafone Group – are building a pan-European “federated edge continuum”, stitching together their national edge assets into a single regional platform. But what is a federated edge – and is this a...
The setup combined FDD and TDD single user MIMO under 3GPP Release 17 specifications
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Uplink milestone – The companies achieved 682 Mbps on a live 5G SA network in Queensland, up from 516 Mbps recorded in 2025.
Release 17 features –...
AT&T Fiber has received Ookla’s first-ever Best Home Internet award in the United States
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Strategy validated – AT&T said Ookla’s first-ever Best Home Internet award confirms its existing fiber expansion approach rather than signaling any strategic shift.
Fiber-led growth –...
Network capacity will be required to double in the next few years in order to cope with 5G adoption and AI demand, reckons American Tower – as its revenues rise on new 5G infrastructure investments
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Data to double – American...
As well as Rakuten Mobile, KDDI has started to deploy open vRAN, and SoftBank is also interested – says Omdia
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Leading APAC – Japan is Asia-Pacific’s leading Open vRAN market, with Rakuten operating the largest fully virtualized O-RAN network globally.
Uneven...
Pre-MWC, Telefónica has detailed advances in AI-driven network automation and enterprise edge. It has 12 level-4 autonomous use cases across Spain, Germany and Brazil (targeting level 4 across its operations by 2030), and has partnered Mavenir on core AI, and expanded 5G/fibre edge-compute services...
The hype around D2D shows no sign of slowing down, but some experts are skeptical of its commercial viability
A group of skiers on a backcountry expedition in Lake Tahoe were caught in a massive avalanche Tuesday morning. What was supposed be the last leg...
