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| Datalec Precision Installations Expands into APAC Datalec Precision Installations announced its strategic expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. This move marks a significant milestone in DPI's global growth strategy and underscores its commitment to delivering seamless, integrated, and end-to-end solutions for data centre operators worldwide. |
| IonQ Demonstrates Remote Ion-Ion Entanglement IonQ announced it has achieved the next milestone on the path towards scaling its quantum systems, demonstrating remote ion-ion entanglement. |
| Ericsson and Softbank Step Up Collaboration On AI-RAN Ericsson and SoftBank announced a collaboration to explore converged architectures for AI-RAN. By combining their strengths, the two companies aim to explore the potential for developing new AI-integrated RAN solutions that boost network efficiency and performance. |
| Nokia and NTT Data Expand Global Private 5G Partnership Nokia announced a global go-to-market partnership with NTT DATA, to advance Private 5G transformation in key sectors such as airports and smart cities. The collaboration addresses the growing need and demand for reliable and modern connectivity solutions for critical business and municipal operations and is already demonstrating success with key customers. |
| CrowdStrike Expands Marketplace CrowdStrike announced the expansion of the CrowdStrike Marketplace, a one-stop destination for the world-class ecosystem of CrowdStrike-compatible security products. This expansion broadens the Marketplace Private Offer program, welcoming transacting solution providers to engage with CrowdStrike Falcon-integrated technologies through the CrowdStrike Marketplace. |
| Comarch Partners with EJADA Comarch announced a strategic partnership with EJADA, a leading systems integrator in Saudi Arabia. The collaboration was revealed at the 24 Fintech event and represents a major step forward in strengthening Comarch’s digital transformation solutions for financial institutions across the Middle East, focusing on the Saudi market. |
| Microsoft and Rezolve AI Partner Microsoft and Rezolve AI announced a strategic partnership to empower retailers with advanced capabilities for digital engagement. Through this collaboration, Rezolve AI’s Brain Suite, including Brain Commerce, Brain Checkout, and Brain Assistant will be powered by Microsoft Azure and available globally via Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace and co-sell channels. |
| Oracle to Invest in AI and Cloud Computing in Malaysia Oracle announced plans to invest more than US$6.5 billion to open a public cloud region in Malaysia. The upcoming cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners in Malaysia to leverage AI infrastructure and services and migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. |
| Nokia Corteca Introduces Open Standards for WiFi Management Nokia announced significant enhancements to its Corteca software suite, making it the industry’s first platform to adopt open standards and protocols for both home networking and application lifecycle management. The Corteca Home Controller now supports prpl LCM, the Open Container Initiative, and the TR-369 User Services Platform protocol, giving operators a vendor-agnostic solution that simplifies the management of in-home broadband gateways, Wi-Fi connectivity, and applications. |
| Spirent Delivers 5G Monetization Opportunities Spirent Communications announced its new 5G Fixed Wireless Access testing services. Spirent’s 5G FWA solutions offer comprehensive lab-based 5G/Wi-Fi gateway testing and live network competitive benchmarking to enable communications service providers and device manufacturers to better optimize quality of experience and differentiate their offerings in an increasingly competitive market. |
| Omantel Picks Genai and 5G Cloud With Optiva Omantel and Optiva announced that they have successfully completed one of the most complex real-time rating and charging transformation projects to date. In partnership, Omantel and Optiva have seamlessly upgraded and migrated over 200 Omantel products and services across all business lines to Optiva’s convergent charging engine, hosted on Omantel’s private cloud. |
| Altice Wholesale Partners with DE-CIX Altice Wholesale Solutions and DE-CIX announced a strategic partnership to extend the reach of DE-CIX’s IX in Lisbon, reinforcing the Portuguese capital’s position as one of the most recent European telecommunications hubs. The collaboration was announced at the first edition of Atlantic Convergence in Lisbon, a conference that aims to unite visionaries, knowledge owners, power users, and digital infrastructure architects from both sides of the Atlantic. |
| NAGRAVISION and Airties Partner to Enhance Consumer Cybersecurity NAGRAVISION announced a partnership with Airties to integrate the NAGRA Scout consumer cybersecurity suite. The collaboration will bring NAGRA Scout’s advanced cybersecurity features to the Airties Smart Wi-Fi portfolio, providing homes and small businesses a premium Wi-Fi experience and delivering straightforward access to robust digital protection for all connected devices. |
| Ericsson and MobiFone Collaborate on Plans for 5G Innovation Hub Ericsson and MobiFone announced that they have signed an MoU to collaborate on establishing 5G Innovation Hub at MobiFone’s premises in Vietnam. The 5G Innovation Hub will feature innovative 5G use cases that demonstrate the potential of 5G for consumers and enterprises based on advanced, state of the art equipment, trained resources and interactive display. |
| Nokia Expands Wi-Fi 7 Portfolio Nokia announced the launch of the Beacon 19, a new Wi-Fi 7 gateway designed to provide seamless, high-capacity mesh networking enabling operators to deliver a superior broadband experience. |
| Ciena Announces Billion Dollar Share Repurchase Ciena announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a program to repurchase up to $1 billion of the company’s common stock, commencing in fiscal year 2025 and continuing through the end of fiscal year 2027. |
| Anritsu and SmartViser Join Forces Anritsu and SmartViser announced a strategic partnership to revolutionise the testing, monitoring, and assurance of mobile and private networks. The partnership will be officially unveiled ahead of the EUWENA event in Paris on October 3, 2024, where industry leaders will gather to discuss the future of European private networks. |
| Vodafone Updates Cybersecurity Factsheet Vodafone announced that it has updated its Cyber Security Factsheet providing details on the company’s approach to managing cyber risk, as well as how it protects customers from online threats. |
| IBM Opens First Quantum Data Center in Europe IBM announced the unveiling of the first IBM Quantum Data Center located outside of the United States. It is the company's second quantum data center in the world and marks a significant expansion of its fleet of advanced, utility-scale quantum systems available to global users via the cloud. |
| Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte Expand Strategic Alliance Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte announced an expansion of their strategic alliance into EMEA and JAPAC regions, making Palo Alto Networks AI-powered cybersecurity solutions and joint offerings available to Deloitte clients globally. The new agreement builds on the long-standing collaboration between the two organizations, accelerating the adoption of leading cybersecurity capabilities and helping clients realize the benefits of platformization. |
| GL Enhances SIP Solutions GL Communications announced their SIP Protocol Emulation and Testing Solutions. These solutions offer a comprehensive framework for all aspects of SIP signaling and voice testing for a variety of network environments. |
| Nokia introduces Lightspan MF-8 Nokia announced the launch of its Lightspan MF-8, a new fiber solution capable of delivering 10/25/50 and future 100G PON services. The MF-8 is designed for mid-sized deployments and offers the unmatched capacity, six-nine reliability, and sub-millisecond latency of the Lightspan MF family. This unique combination makes it ideal for delivering both residential and mission-critical industry 4.0 services and applications, with no single point of failure. |
| LSC Breaks Ground on New Dark Fiber Ring Light Source Communications announced the expansion of its dark fiber network in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, metropolitan area featuring a major hyperscaler as the anchor tenant. Two new rings will add a total of 80 miles of new fiber to LSC’s existing 50-mile network in the Tulsa area, an emerging fiber network market currently boasting multiple data centers amid a growing ecosystem of connectivity. |
| FCC Reaches Multi-Million Dollar Settlement of Investigations Into T-Mobile Data Breaches The Federal Communications Commission announced a groundbreaking data protection and cybersecurity settlement with T-Mobile to resolve the Enforcement Bureau’s investigations into significant data breaches that impacted millions of U.S. consumers. |
| VEON Completes the Sale of Its Stake in TNS+ VEON announced that it has completed the sale of its 49% stake in Kazakh wholesale telecommunications infrastructure services provider, TNS Plus LLP, to its JV partner, the DAR group of companies, following the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals. |
