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Bain & Company warns that traditional industrial control systems are losing their central role as AI and smart devices redefine the economic landscape. By 2030, software, AI workflows, and intelligent field devices will capture the bulk of industry profit. In …

Huawei said it will continue to invest in areas including connectivity, computing, cloud, and AI, while building ecosystems around its Ascend and Kunpeng chips and HarmonyOS platform In sum – what to know: Stable growth – Revenue rose 2.2% to …

For years, voice services occupied a quiet corner of telecom strategy. While reliable and ubiquitous, they remained economically stagnant. Innovation gravitated toward apps and hyperscalers, leaving telcos to focus on the cold efficiency of network operations. That trajectory is now …

Blue Origin’s push into orbital data centers is about “staking a claim than demonstrating parity with Starlink”, says analyst firm Blue Origin, the US aerospace manufacturer and space-flight services outfit founded by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, made headlines last week …

HPE reinforced the telco shift at MWC: the urgent mid-gen upgrade of fiber interconnect and longhaul networks for the AI era, plus the edge inference agenda just coming on-stream – as served by its PTX and MX portfolios, respectively, as …

As AI transforms the technology stack one small thing at a time, an equally profound change is taking place in test and measurement With the advent of AI, test and measurement is moving beyond its pass-fail era where it could …

Reactive assurance models are being pushed to the limit as AI-driven traffic rips through the network Networks are increasingly carrying cutting-edge AI-related workloads, and that is straining traditional network testing approaches in unexpected ways. On one hand, new AI functions …

Deutsche Telekom is expanding AI-driven automation beyond monitoring into operational control In sum – what to know: Expansion scope – Deutsche Telekom is deploying AI across customer services and network operations, with broader rollouts planned throughout the year. Voice integration …

Aurora Networks, under rebranded parent Vistance Networks, has upgraded Vodafone’s broadband network in Germany with Remote PHY, DAA, and virtual CMTS technologies – for improved AI-friendly last-mile connectivity. In sum – what to know: Modern last-mile – Remote PHY moves …

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 …

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 told …

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 reliability. …

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 and …

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 sometimes …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The message from Nvidia chief Jensen Huang at GTC this week is that AI is no longer about models or chips alone, but about monetizing inference at scale – where tokens become the core unit of value, and data centers …

Wi-Fi 8 will support future networks as traffic shifts from human-initiated applications to machine-driven, agentic AI applications Wi-Fi 8 is designed to build directly on the performance gains introduced with Wi-Fi 7. Extending them by delivering higher and more consistent …

Service assurance is officially graduating from an era of dashboards, tickets, and engineers scrambling to find what’s gone wrong to swift root cause analysis and proactive fixes As AI moves deeper into the network stack, a burst of experimentation has …

One of the strategies announced by True centers on embedding AI across network operations, customer service, and internal systems In sum – what to know: Three-year plan – True Corporation has introduced “Four Big Moves” to shift from a traditional …

The CEO of TIM outlined how the telecom sector’s priorities are shifting as new digital applications place different demands on networks In sum – what to know: AI is interconnected – TIM CEO Pietro Labriola told MWC that telecoms infrastructure, …

Agentic AI, sustainability mandates, edge-native infrastructure, and AI-augmented workforces are reshaping how operators run networks and serve customers, says enterprise software company IFS. In recent years, the industry has undergone significant changes, whether in network services, infrastructure, or regulations. 2026 …

EXFO’s Olivier Côté digs into testing challenges — and outlines how methods are evolving to accommodate hollow core fiber’s physical peculiarities One of hottest trends coming out of the optical fiber industry today is hollow core fiber (HCF).  HCF had …