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 …
Webinar: Rethinking the RAN as AI, cloud and openness converge
The RAN is entering a new phase where the principles of openness, the flexibility of cloud-native architectures, and the power of AI converge. Open RAN has laid the foundation for …
Report: Scaling Optical Networks For The Hyperscale And AI Era
AI is not just driving demand for more network capacity. It is fundamentally changing what networks need to do. AI workloads introduce a traffic profile unlike anything cloud computing has …
Wi-Fi Market Pulse Report: Scaling Wi-Fi 7, Preparing For Wi-Fi 8
As 6G still develops, Wi-Fi is stepping into the spotlight, not just as a complementary technology, but as a critical enabler of connectivity. With Wi-Fi 7 rolling out and Wi-Fi …
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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 – …
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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, …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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: …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Nokia touts massive TCO reduction with new line of coherent optical solutions
by Sulagna Sahaby Sulagna SahaPost-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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Telefónica targets AI-era monetization with automation push, transport overhaul
by Sulagna Sahaby Sulagna SahaAt 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 …
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Major carriers are using Nvidia’s “AI Grid” to repurpose their networks In sum – what we know: Nvidia GTC 2026 brought a wave of announcements from some of the biggest …
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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 – …