News Center | Pipeline Magazine | Communications Technology News and Information

Commnet Broadband Transforms In-home Connectivity Across Rural American Southwest Adtran announced that Commnet Broadband is leveraging Intellifi as part of its Mosaic One software-as-a-service solution to enhance in-home connectivity as the service provider scales across the American Southwest. The cloud-managed Wi-Fi solution will enable Commnet Broadband to deliver a seamless, always-on mesh Wi-Fi experience, boosting subscriber satisfaction while driving new efficiencies.
altafiber Continues Long-Term Partnership With Netcracker Netcracker announced that it will continue to deliver mission-critical IT functions, applications and services to altafiber, the leading supplier of fiber-based services in Greater Cincinnati.
FCC Fines Telcos for Illegal Information Sharing The Federal Communications Commission announced that they have fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent and without taking reasonable measures to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure.
EU Council Allows Faster Deployment Of High-speed Networks The Council of the EU announced the gigabit infrastructure act to ensure faster deployment of digital network infrastructure across Europe which will replace the 2014 broadband cost reduction directive. The new law aims to simplify and accelerate the roll-out of high-speed networks, such as fibre and 5G, with a view to achieving Europe’s connectivity objectives and targets set out in the digital compass for this decade.
Cerillion Harnesses GenAI Image Recognition Cerillion announced the launch of Cerillion 24.1, which exploits the latest GenAI-powered image recognition technology to completely transform how communications services providers design and build new products and services.
Financial Times Collaborates With ChatGPT The Financial Times announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with OpenAI to enhance ChatGPT with attributed content, help improve its models’ usefulness by incorporating FT journalism, and collaborate on developing new AI products and features for FT readers.
Axel Springer and Microsoft Expand Partnership Axel Springer and Microsoft have announced an expanded, multifaceted partnership across advertising, AI, content and cloud computing. The cooperation aims to leverage cutting-edge innovation to support independent journalism around the world.
DeLaval Selects SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP announced that Swedish-based DeLaval, part of the Tetra Laval Group, has chosen SAP S/4HANA Cloud to build out its new cloud-based ERP system as part of its company-wide transformation process.
e& UAE Selects Nokia Cloud Interconnect Solution Nokia announced that e& UAE, telecom arm of e&, will leverage Nokia’s cloud interconnect solution to provide connectivity services for hyperscalers in the United Arab Emirates. By using Nokia’s FP5-based technology, e& UAE can now offer significantly high-quality connectivity to hyperscalers, representing a revolution in performance, scale, and security. This will lead to e& UAE’s network being able to support mission-critical applications delivered across evolved business-class services.
IBM Signs Agreements to Strengthen Canadian Semiconductor Industry IBM, the Government of Canada, and the Government of Quebec announced agreements that will strengthen Canada's semiconductor industry, and further develop the assembly, testing and packaging capabilities for semiconductor modules to be used across a wide range of applications including telecommunications, high performance computing, automotive, aerospace & defence, computer networks, and generative AI, at IBM Canada's plant in Bromont, Quebec.
HP Antivirus Given Perfect Score HP announced that a comprehensive new report from AV-TEST, a leading independent IT security research institute, has confirmed that HP Wolf Pro Security’s Next Generation Antivirus is one of the best Windows Antivirus Software solutions for Business Users on the market. Wolf Pro Security’s NGAV was recognized as a “top product” for corporate endpoint protection, receiving a perfect rating across all testing categories.
Microsoft Collaboration to Power Prestige Beauty With Generative AI The Estee Lauder Companies and Microsoft announced the creation of an AI Innovation Lab as an expansion of their global strategic relationship. Leveraging cutting edge generative AI capabilities in Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, the companies will work together to develop solutions that further empower ELC’s more than 20 prestige beauty brands as they create closer consumer connections and increase speed to market with local relevancy.
T-Mobile and EQT Announce Joint Venture to Acquire Lumos T-Mobile and EQT announced they have entered into a joint venture with EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund that will acquire fiber-to-the-home platform Lumos from EQT’s predecessor fund EQT Infrastructure III.
Snowflake Launches Arctic LLM Snowflake announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. With its unique Mixture-of-Experts architecture, Arctic delivers top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale. It is optimized for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more.
VEON Banglalink to Stream ICC Cricket on Toffee VEON announced that Banglalink, its digital operator in Bangladesh, secured the exclusive rights to the nation-wide streaming of International Cricket Council world events until the end of 2025. The ICC matches will be available on Toffee streaming platform, commencing with the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on 1 June 2024.
Nokia and Anterix Pave the Way for 5G Adoption Nokia and Anterix announced that they have successfully completed the industry’s first B106 data call at Nokia’s Lab in Dallas, Texas. The companies collaborated following the standardization of B106 in 3GPP Release 18 to widen the options for chipsets and devices to support private wireless use cases for utilities.
Salesforce Unveils Zero Copy Partner Network Salesforce announced the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network, a global ecosystem of technology and solution providers building secure, bidirectional zero copy integrations with Salesforce Data Cloud so that data can be actioned across the Salesforce Einstein 1 Platform.
GL Communications Announces Advanced Network Monitoring and Surveillance System GL Communications announced their advanced network monitoring and surveillance system, NetSurveyorWeb. Customized for IP, Wireless, and TDM networks, this platform provides comprehensive solutions to fulfill monitoring requirements in any environment.
Zain KSA and Enea Announce Innovation Enea and Zain KSA announced a collaboration to pilot the world’s first mobile network signaling overlay technology, which significantly extends signaling firewall capabilities. The patent-pending signaling security overlay was conceived in Enea’s Technology Research unit during 2023 with patents filed in December 2023.
Ericsson and F.I.R.S.T at IIT Kanpur Form Strategic Partnership Ericsson and the Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur announced a two-year strategic partnership to drive innovation in Mobile Financial Services and Fintech solutions. The partnership will identify emerging technologies, trends, and market insights to address real customer needs. This collaboration comes at a pivotal moment as the digital wallet market is predicted to surpass $16 trillion in transactions by 2028.
Keysight Delivers Radio Frequency Design Keysight, Synopsys and Ansys announced a new integrated radio frequency design migration flow from TSMC's N16 process to its N6RF+ technology to address the power, performance, and area requirements of today's most demanding wireless integrated circuit applications.
NEC Develops High-speed Generative AI LLM NEC announced that it has expanded its NEC cotomi generative AI services with the development of NEC cotomi Pro and NEC cotomi Light, two new high-speed generative AI Large Language Models featuring updated training data and architectures.
Nokia Selected by Perfectum Nokia announced a landmark 5G deal with Perfectum in Uzbekistan. This greenfield deal marks a significant step towards the deployment of cutting-edge 5G technology in the country, revolutionizing connectivity and paving the way for future innovation.
Juniper Networks Demonstrates Industry-First Comprehensive 800ZR System Juniper Networks announced that it is collaborating with Coherent and Marvell Technology to present the first public demonstration of their 800ZR solution featuring Juniper Networks PTX10002 36QDD Packet Transport Router, Coherent Corporation’s 800ZR transceiver and the 800G Marvell Orion coherent digital signal processor at OFC 2024 (Booth 1323).
Adtran and Vertilas Answer AI Demands Adtran and Vertilas announced the industry’s first 100Gbit/s PAM4 single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser technology with capabilities up to 1.6Tbit/s. On display at this week’s OFC, it sets new standards for low power consumption in optical engines and modules, with up to 80% reduction in power on the transmit optics compared to conventional solutions.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Commnet Broadband Transforms In-home Connectivity Across Rural American Southwest
Adtran announced that Commnet Broadband is leveraging Intellifi as part of its Mosaic One software-as-a-service solution to enhance in-home connectivity as the service provider scales across the American Southwest. The cloud-managed Wi-Fi solution will enable Commnet Broadband to deliver a seamless, always-on mesh Wi-Fi experience, boosting subscriber satisfaction while driving new efficiencies.

altafiber Continues Long-Term Partnership With Netcracker
Netcracker announced that it will continue to deliver mission-critical IT functions, applications and services to altafiber, the leading supplier of fiber-based services in Greater Cincinnati.

FCC Fines Telcos for Illegal Information Sharing
The Federal Communications Commission announced that they have fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent and without taking reasonable measures to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure.

EU Council Allows Faster Deployment Of High-speed Networks
The Council of the EU announced the gigabit infrastructure act to ensure faster deployment of digital network infrastructure across Europe which will replace the 2014 broadband cost reduction directive. The new law aims to simplify and accelerate the roll-out of high-speed networks, such as fibre and 5G, with a view to achieving Europe’s connectivity objectives and targets set out in the digital compass for this decade.

Cerillion Harnesses GenAI Image Recognition
Cerillion announced the launch of Cerillion 24.1, which exploits the latest GenAI-powered image recognition technology to completely transform how communications services providers design and build new products and services.

Financial Times Collaborates With ChatGPT
The Financial Times announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with OpenAI to enhance ChatGPT with attributed content, help improve its models’ usefulness by incorporating FT journalism, and collaborate on developing new AI products and features for FT readers.

Axel Springer and Microsoft Expand Partnership
Axel Springer and Microsoft have announced an expanded, multifaceted partnership across advertising, AI, content and cloud computing. The cooperation aims to leverage cutting-edge innovation to support independent journalism around the world.

DeLaval Selects SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP announced that Swedish-based DeLaval, part of the Tetra Laval Group, has chosen SAP S/4HANA Cloud to build out its new cloud-based ERP system as part of its company-wide transformation process.

e& UAE Selects Nokia Cloud Interconnect Solution
Nokia announced that e& UAE, telecom arm of e&, will leverage Nokia’s cloud interconnect solution to provide connectivity services for hyperscalers in the United Arab Emirates. By using Nokia’s FP5-based technology, e& UAE can now offer significantly high-quality connectivity to hyperscalers, representing a revolution in performance, scale, and security. This will lead to e& UAE’s network being able to support mission-critical applications delivered across evolved business-class services.

IBM Signs Agreements to Strengthen Canadian Semiconductor Industry
IBM, the Government of Canada, and the Government of Quebec announced agreements that will strengthen Canada's semiconductor industry, and further develop the assembly, testing and packaging capabilities for semiconductor modules to be used across a wide range of applications including telecommunications, high performance computing, automotive, aerospace & defence, computer networks, and generative AI, at IBM Canada's plant in Bromont, Quebec.

HP Antivirus Given Perfect Score
HP announced that a comprehensive new report from AV-TEST, a leading independent IT security research institute, has confirmed that HP Wolf Pro Security’s Next Generation Antivirus is one of the best Windows Antivirus Software solutions for Business Users on the market. Wolf Pro Security’s NGAV was recognized as a “top product” for corporate endpoint protection, receiving a perfect rating across all testing categories.

Microsoft Collaboration to Power Prestige Beauty With Generative AI
The Estee Lauder Companies and Microsoft announced the creation of an AI Innovation Lab as an expansion of their global strategic relationship. Leveraging cutting edge generative AI capabilities in Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, the companies will work together to develop solutions that further empower ELC’s more than 20 prestige beauty brands as they create closer consumer connections and increase speed to market with local relevancy.

T-Mobile and EQT Announce Joint Venture to Acquire Lumos
T-Mobile and EQT announced they have entered into a joint venture with EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund that will acquire fiber-to-the-home platform Lumos from EQT’s predecessor fund EQT Infrastructure III.

Snowflake Launches Arctic LLM
Snowflake announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. With its unique Mixture-of-Experts architecture, Arctic delivers top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale. It is optimized for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more.

VEON Banglalink to Stream ICC Cricket on Toffee
VEON announced that Banglalink, its digital operator in Bangladesh, secured the exclusive rights to the nation-wide streaming of International Cricket Council world events until the end of 2025. The ICC matches will be available on Toffee streaming platform, commencing with the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on 1 June 2024.

Nokia and Anterix Pave the Way for 5G Adoption
Nokia and Anterix announced that they have successfully completed the industry’s first B106 data call at Nokia’s Lab in Dallas, Texas. The companies collaborated following the standardization of B106 in 3GPP Release 18 to widen the options for chipsets and devices to support private wireless use cases for utilities.

Salesforce Unveils Zero Copy Partner Network
Salesforce announced the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network, a global ecosystem of technology and solution providers building secure, bidirectional zero copy integrations with Salesforce Data Cloud so that data can be actioned across the Salesforce Einstein 1 Platform.

GL Communications Announces Advanced Network Monitoring and Surveillance System
GL Communications announced their advanced network monitoring and surveillance system, NetSurveyorWeb. Customized for IP, Wireless, and TDM networks, this platform provides comprehensive solutions to fulfill monitoring requirements in any environment.

Zain KSA and Enea Announce Innovation
Enea and Zain KSA announced a collaboration to pilot the world’s first mobile network signaling overlay technology, which significantly extends signaling firewall capabilities. The patent-pending signaling security overlay was conceived in Enea’s Technology Research unit during 2023 with patents filed in December 2023.

Ericsson and F.I.R.S.T at IIT Kanpur Form Strategic Partnership
Ericsson and the Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur announced a two-year strategic partnership to drive innovation in Mobile Financial Services and Fintech solutions. The partnership will identify emerging technologies, trends, and market insights to address real customer needs. This collaboration comes at a pivotal moment as the digital wallet market is predicted to surpass $16 trillion in transactions by 2028.

Keysight Delivers Radio Frequency Design
Keysight, Synopsys and Ansys announced a new integrated radio frequency design migration flow from TSMC's N16 process to its N6RF+ technology to address the power, performance, and area requirements of today's most demanding wireless integrated circuit applications.

NEC Develops High-speed Generative AI LLM
NEC announced that it has expanded its NEC cotomi generative AI services with the development of NEC cotomi Pro and NEC cotomi Light, two new high-speed generative AI Large Language Models featuring updated training data and architectures.

Nokia Selected by Perfectum
Nokia announced a landmark 5G deal with Perfectum in Uzbekistan. This greenfield deal marks a significant step towards the deployment of cutting-edge 5G technology in the country, revolutionizing connectivity and paving the way for future innovation.

Juniper Networks Demonstrates Industry-First Comprehensive 800ZR System
Juniper Networks announced that it is collaborating with Coherent and Marvell Technology to present the first public demonstration of their 800ZR solution featuring Juniper Networks PTX10002 36QDD Packet Transport Router, Coherent Corporation’s 800ZR transceiver and the 800G Marvell Orion coherent digital signal processor at OFC 2024 (Booth 1323).

Adtran and Vertilas Answer AI Demands
Adtran and Vertilas announced the industry’s first 100Gbit/s PAM4 single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser technology with capabilities up to 1.6Tbit/s. On display at this week’s OFC, it sets new standards for low power consumption in optical engines and modules, with up to 80% reduction in power on the transmit optics compared to conventional solutions.

Follow @PipelineWire