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| Ciena Unveils 1.6 Tbs Coherent Pluggable Solution Ciena announced that they are bringing to market a 1.6 Tb/s Coherent-Lite pluggable to help cloud and data center providers cope with the expected growth in cloud, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence related traffic. |
| Ericsson and Concordia University Expand Partnership Ericsson and Concordia announced the expansion of their existing partnership, entering into a 10-year agreement focused on advancing research and education in Information and Communications Technology. This new and innovative agreement builds on a longstanding research engagement since 2011, that has resulted in numerous technological initiatives, breakthroughs, and programs in network technology. |
| Juniper Research Find Huge IoT Roaming Growth Juniper Research announced that their new study has found that operator revenue from IoT roaming will grow from $1.1 billion in 2024 to $2.2 billion in 2029. This market-leading study predicts that 5G IoT devices will be instrumental in driving this increase; accounting for more than 40% of total revenue by 2029, despite accounting for fewer than 10% of IoT roaming connections. |
| Rizz Wireless Selects Amdocs Amdocs announced that Rizz Wireless has chosen the Amdocs connectX cloud-native SaaS platform to support its new digital offering that enables subscribers to enjoy uninterrupted US local connectivity while traveling internationally. |
| ServiceNow Accelerates DX for Nonprofits ServiceNow announced plans to accelerate digital experiences for nonprofit organizations by expanding access to technology, knowledge, and opportunity. The company showcased its refreshed commitment to a better world during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where it is also sponsoring activities and organizations, including the Concordia Annual Summit and the Diana Award, Goals House, the Devex Summit, the World Climate Summit, and the Global Africa Initiative. |
| IBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model on Hugging Face IBM announced a new AI foundation model for a variety of weather and climate use cases, available in open-source to the scientific, developer, and business communities. Developed by IBM and NASA, with contributions from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the model offers a flexible, scalable way to address a variety of challenges related to short-term weather as well as long-term climate projection. |
| Singtel Deploys New 5G Technology for Dynamic Network Resource Allocation Singtel announced that it is the first in the world to commercially deploy a new 5G capability, Ericsson’s Automated Radio Resource Partitioning. |
| Cloudflare Releases AI Audit Cloudflare announced AI Audit, a set of tools to help websites of any size analyze and control how their content is used by artificial intelligence models. For the first time, website and content creators will be able to quickly and easily understand how AI model providers are using their content, and then take control of whether and how the models are able to access it. |
| University Selects Nile Nile announced that Johnson C. Smith University has selected the Nile Access Service to replace its existing wired and wireless LAN solution across its entire campus. The institution selected Nile’s solution due to its unique performance guarantees for availability, coverage, and capacity, its AI-powered “as-a-Service” architecture that automates network lifecycle management, and its native campus zero trust security that prevents lateral movement attacks such as ransomware. |
| Nokia wins 5G deal with Viettel Group Nokia announced that it has signed a major new deal with Viettel Group to deploy 5G equipment for the first time nationwide in Vietnam. The ambitious project will cover 22 provinces across the country and support Viettel’s strategy of advancing 5G infrastructure and digital transformation. The project will also see Nokia modernize Viettel’s 4G infrastructure. Deployment will begin this year. |
| Netcracker Launches Suite of Broadband Experience Solutions Netcracker announced that it has launched a suite of Broadband Experience Solutions to help Cable MSOs quickly expand into new growth markets, including MVNO and B2B. The pre-packaged cloud-native solutions will accelerate the build-out of advanced fiber and mobile connectivity, transform the customer experience with digital and AI technology and expand growth in B2B markets. |
| Telstra Utilizes Ciena WaveLogic 6 Telstra announced a successful world first milestone, achieving 1.6Tb/s through a single optical channel over 700km with Ericsson using Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme. This trial was conducted alongside live traffic services across the central Telstra InfraCo fibre route between Melbourne and Canberra, which is one of the highest capacity routes in Australia. |
| Juniper Expands AI-Native Networking Platform Juniper Networks announced several key enhancements to its leading AI-Native Networking Platform that enable customers and partners to take full advantage of the emerging 802.11be amendment ( Wi-Fi 7 ), which promises higher throughput, lower latency, extended range and greater reliability than previous Wi-Fi versions. |
| Adtran to Take Part in OIF Demo Adtran announced its key role in the Optical Internetworking Forum’s demonstration of open, multi-vendor networking at the European Conference on Optical Communication 2024. At the center of the showcase are Adtran’s Coherent 100ZR QSFP28 pluggable module and its FSP 3000 open optical line system, which enables the transport of a wide range of data rates, including 100ZR and 400Gbit/s OpenZR+, as featured in this demo. |
| 5G Americas Studies 6G 5G Americas announced the publication of its latest white paper, ITU’s IMT 2030 Vision: Navigating Towards 6G in the Americas, which studies the ITU IMT 2030 vision and its implications for the Americas. |
| Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Navigation Systems Over Arctic Ocean Northrop Grumman announced that they have successfully demonstrated the MQ-4C Triton navigation system's ability to operate at high latitudes deep within the Arctic Circle, delivering on its commitment to provide critical intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities in the High North. |
| XKL Secures BABA Compliance XKL announced its compliance with Build America Buy America. XKL has proudly designed, manufactured, and tested its products in the U.S. since it was founded more than 30 years ago. This is a testament to the company's commitment and support of U.S. manufacturing and directly aligns with the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. |
| Mediacom Uses Openvault PMA Solution Mediacom Communications announced that it is using OpenVault’s Profile Management Application technology to optimize broadband Quality of Experience and take consumer satisfaction to new heights. |
| Communications APIs to Generate $35 Billion Juniper Research announced that their new study predicts that communications services, such as rich media messaging and conversational AI, will represent 32% of operator revenue from network application programming interfaces by 2027. |
| Bluepeak Poised for DOCSIS 4.0, 10G and Faster Internet with Harmonic cOS U.S. service provider Bluepeak Fiber is taking a major step toward future-proofing its broadband network with Harmonic’s virtualized broadband platform. |
| NVIDIA AI Aerial Launches NVIDIA announced the launch of AI Aerial, a suite of accelerated computing software and hardware for designing, simulating, training and deploying AI radio access network technology for wireless networks in the AI era. |
| Nokia and iSAT Africa Enhance Rural Coverage Nokia announced a strategic partnership with iSAT Africa to enhance rural connectivity in Liberia, aiming to bridge the digital divide and bring reliable, affordable network access to underserved communities. This deployment will span over three years and cover approximately 200 sites across rural areas in Liberia. |
| Adtran Launches Oscilloquartz Time Scale System Adtran announced the launch of its Oscilloquartz Time Scale System, developed to meet the precise timekeeping requirements of national metrology institutes, scientific research facilities and other applications demanding the highest levels of accuracy and traceability. |
| CrowdStrike Innovations Unify End-to-End Security and IT Operations CrowdStrike announced new innovations that unify security and IT to stop breaches on the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform. The single-agent, cloud- and AI-native Falcon platform consolidates point products to eliminate complexity and deliver better security outcomes. With these new innovations, CrowdStrike is unifying the security and IT operations lifecycle, from assessing risk and threat detection, to accelerating remediation and response. |
| Munters and ZutaCore Form Strategic Alliance Munters and ZutaCore announced that they will integrate Munters SyCool systems with ZutaCore’s advanced 2-phase liquid cooling technology. The aim is to tackle the challenges of managing AI-generated heat more efficiently and sustainably. The result will be a system that optimizes performance, from chip level dissipation to all parts of the heat rejection cycle. It also eliminates the risks associated with potential water leakage. |
