Innovating with Trust, Technology, and Confidence

By: Scott St. John - Pipeline

We’re at a new stage of our evolution. The world has fundamentally changed at an unprecedented pace over just a few decades. Those of us who were alive to see this technical revolution unfold firsthand know that it has been quite a remarkable sight to behold. Before the technical revolution took place, in the Before Times, there were no mobile phones and no internet, and you needed a single computer that filled an entire room to perform simple math calculations. Today, we have more computing power in our pockets than existed at that time…

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How AI and Modular Design Are Powering the Next Generation of Data Centers

By: Tod Higinbotham

As data centers evolve into modular, AI-optimized hubs that improve scalability and efficiency, innovations like prefabricated modular designs, AI-driven automation, and advanced cooling systems are redefining the landscape.As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads rapidly proliferate across the globe – creating unprecedented demand for power, cooling, and scalability – data center operators are reimagining their approach to data center design. No longer confined to the one-size-fits-all architectures of the past, today's data centers are evolving to become AI-optimized, modular, purpose-built ecosystems that prioritize performance, flexibility, scalability, and energy efficiency…

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Defending the Front Lines: For Telecom Security, Customers Need Protection After Cyber Incidents

By: Dan Carella

Fraud losses are mounting across the telecommunications sector, with threats evolving in volume and sophistication. While telecom companies focus on perimeter defenses, cybercriminals target a more vulnerable access point: people. What’s more, it appears that what happens after a data breach—from any source—is becoming more critically important to telecom security and fraud prevention. TransUnion’s 2025 Telecommunications Industry Fraud Report paints a troubling picture: Nearly 70% of telecom executives reported a rise in fraud attempts over the past three years…

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NASA: Lost At Space

By: Robert H. Brumley, II

NASA – the actual institution, people, and performance – is at a tipping point. It has an aging infrastructure, a brain drain of talent leaving for new space start-ups, and a fatigued management team trying to balance unrealistic congressional priorities with the realities of sustaining complex systems and people in space.  Rising space adversaries’ recent successes combined with NASA’s delays and missteps, are also straining the fabric of the institution and its limited political capital…

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A Practical Guide for Embracing Innovation

By: Chantel Cary

The pace of innovation is accelerating. In just the last three years we’ve cycled through the metaverse, been introduced to generative AI, and have now moved on to agentic AI. It can be overwhelming how fast new technologies seem to come and go and hard to determine what’s hype? What’s real? What should be implemented? What has staying power? What can be monetized? These are just some of the common questions telecom leaders are asking as the industry begins to buzz about the latest technology…

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Innovation Management:
From Uncertainty to Impact

By: Tiago Lopes

Innovation is the process of translating an idea or invention into a product or service that creates value that customers are willing to pay for. It inherently involves a degree of uncertainty regarding the problem, the solution, and the market. In the telecoms sector, competitive threats and rapid technological change mean that innovation is not just an advantage. It’s a competitive necessity. For CEOs, monitoring innovation closely is imperative because, despite the risk, it is not optional…

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AI: The Double Edged Sword of Progress

By: Akli Adjaoute

AI isn’t magic. It’s just a computer program that’s really good at spotting patterns. Feed it enough examples like online content, books from digital libraries, product descriptions, and customer questions, and it learns to predict what comes next. AI may feel like a futuristic leap, but its roots go back to 1956 when researchers coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” at a Dartmouth workshop. In the 1960s, Arthur Samuel developed a checkers-playing program that beat skilled players and was featured on national television…

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Preparing for GenAI Innovation

By: Mark Cummings, Ph.D.

With the explosive appearance of this generation of GenAI, it is hard to think about preparing for the next disruption. Hard, but necessary. The GenAI field is ripe for innovation in the two areas of software and hardware. It is easy to miss the true innovation bubbling up because of other AI news coming out. With new versions of existing LLMs (Large Language Models) coming out every few weeks, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the incremental improvements we are getting in GenAI are the only genuine innovations…

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The Challenges of Lunar Navigation

By: Ricardo Verdeguer Moreno

The space race of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s was one of the most exciting and accelerated technological times. From sending the first satellite into space to putting the first people on the moon, there were giant leaps in a short time frame. It represented competition between superpowers and the soft and hard power that came from it.Fast-forward to today, and humans are going back to the moon—but this time in an overarching spirit of cooperation and perhaps even necessity. We’ve become increasingly aware of the fragile nature of our existence on Earth, making the desire to explore space all the stronger…

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The Role of Assurance and AI in Building
Level 4 Autonomous Networks

By: Sandeep Raina

As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) roll out their latest 5G and Fiber Broadband services, the need for automating operations and reducing costs has become a necessity.The complexity of such disaggregated networks introduces errors, only worsened by manual operations. With operational automation based on Assurance and AI insights, not only can high amounts of data be processed efficiently, but operational errors can be significantly reduced. Leveraging AI as a predictive tool is critical to the evolution of Autonomous Networks which will speed up troubleshooting, prioritize resolution, and automate the next best actions for remediation…

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Letter from the Editor

By: Scott St. John - Pipeline

Innovation is taking the foundation of what exists today and molding it into a vision of the future. It’s about reinvention. Understanding past progress, current limitations, and recent discoveries to craft a new, elegant solution. Innovators require both insight and foresight, and navigating the challenges of innovation isn’t easy. Innovation can be a messy business, rife with many pitfalls and failures, but it’s a race to the finish where the winners take all.  If we look at the innovators of modern times, Uber reinvented taxi service…

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IT & Telecom Industry News

By: Thomas Board - Pipeline

This month’s tech industry highlights feature significant strides in quantum computing, AI, 5G, and cybersecurity, showcasing innovation from space-based AI to next-gen network deployments. Key players like IBM, Meta, Ericsson, and SAP are driving progress across infrastructure, cloud, and digital transformation. The month’s top industry news stories are summarized below. To view breaking news in real-time, visit Pipeline’s News Center, follow Pipeline on social media, and subscribe to receive our weekly industry enterprise and communications technology news summary…

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