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| FLAG Improves Undersea Connectivity with Ciena WaveLogic 6 Ciena announced that FLAG is leveraging Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme across two segments of its India Connectivity Mesh, Chennai-Singapore and Mumbai-Singapore. FLAG is using Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme solution, powered by WL6e, to upgrade capacity on these segments to transport 400GbE client services and, in the near future, 800GbE client services. |
| EXA Infrastructure Expands Infrastructure with Ciena Ciena announced that EXA Infrastructure is using Ciena's optical networking solutions to expand its infrastructure in the United States with a new route from Ashburn, Virginia, to Atlanta, Georgia. To meet the demands of the data center connectivity market and prepare for the transformative impact of AI, the new route offers up to 400 Gb/s connectivity for customers, including large hyperscalers and enterprises, and provides on-net circuits to data centers across the Atlantic. |
| Oracle and NVIDIA Accelerate Sovereign AI NVIDIA and Oracle announced they are deepening their collaboration to bolster sovereign AI initiatives and accelerate government digital transformation worldwide. |
| NVIDIA and Oracle to Accelerate Enterprise AI Oracle announced a new OCI Zettascale10 computing cluster accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, designed for high-performance AI inference and training workloads. The cluster will deliver up to 16 zettaflops of peak AI compute performance and harness NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, the first Ethernet platform purpose-built for AI, enabling hyperscalers to interconnect millions of GPUs with unprecedented efficiency and scale. |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark Arrives NVIDIA announced it will start shipping NVIDIA DGX Spark, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer. AI workloads are quickly outgrowing the memory and software capabilities of the PCs, workstations and laptops millions of developers rely on today, forcing teams to shift work to the cloud or local data centers. |
| Ericsson and e& Egypt Sign Agreement Ericsson and e& Egypt announced that they have extended their long-standing partnership through a four-year agreement focused on modernizing and expanding e& Egypt’s network to enhance 5G readiness through an ambitious cloud-native transformation program. The expansion will lead to enhanced user experiences by introducing new services and accelerate the adoption of Voice over LTE at e& Egypt. |
| Ericsson and e& Sign MoU Ericsson and e& announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding at GITEX Global 2025 held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to collaborate on enterprise connectivity by deploying the Ericsson Private 5G solution. |
| Ericsson and Vodafone Announce Partnership Ericsson and Vodafone announced a five-year strategic partnership to modernize Vodafone’s network footprint using Ericsson’s high-performing programmable network solutions across several key markets. |
| Nokia Extends Partnership With Vodafone and Vodacom Nokia announced that it has maintained its role as Vodafone’s strategic partner in Europe and Africa as part of Vodafone’s five-year radio access network investment programme. The deal follows Nokia’s recent RAN agreement with VodafoneThree, part of the largest privately funded telecommunications infrastructure project in Europe. The move supports Vodafone’s ambitions to deliver next-generation connectivity across Europe and Africa, enabling an inclusive and sustainable digital society. |
| Cisco Releases AI Research Cisco announced the release of the results from the third annual Cisco AI Readiness Index. A small but consistent group of companies surveyed, the Pacesetters, about 13% of organizations for the last three years, outperform their peers across every measure of AI value, captured for the first time in Cisco’s global study of over 8,000 AI leaders across 30 markets and 26 industries. |
| Adtran Launches Mosaic One Clarity Adtran announced the launch of Mosaic One Clarity, a new artificial intelligence solution designed to help service providers simplify network operations and improve efficiency. Built on Adtran’s REAL AI platform, the new Mosaic One module is already in several customer trials. |
| Cloudflare Collaborates with Leading Payments Companies Cloudflare announced that it is working with the world’s largest payments companies to create an authentication layer for agentic commerce. This industry-wide collaboration leverages the Web Bot Auth protocol, enabling AI agents to shop at millions of merchants globally. |
| SOLiD Unveils BARS Enterprise-grade In-building Connectivity for Middleprise The SOLiD BARS solution simplifies the delivery of enterprise-grade connectivity over quick and easy-to-install Ethernet infrastructure to small, aesthetically pleasing, remote units (RUs) installed throughout the building, providing quality coverage that just works. |
| Oracle and Duality Deliver Privacy-First AI Oracle announced that Duality Technologies secure data collaboration platform is now available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace and deployable on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This enables government, defense, and intelligence customers to secure their data collaboration for mission-critical operations with OCI’s built-in security and interoperability across specialized government, sovereign, and classified cloud environments, including Oracle Cloud Isolated Regions. |
| Oracle Unveils New Defense Members Oracle announced the second cohort of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, a pioneering global initiative designed to accelerate technological innovation and strengthen the capabilities of the defense community across the United States and allied nations. Established in June 2025, the Oracle Defense Ecosystem brings together leading startups, scale-ups, and established enterprises to drive AI and cyber innovation and enhance national security. |
| Oracle Collaborates with SoftBank Oracle and SoftBank announced that they are collaborating to provide secure, compliant, and scalable sovereign cloud and AI services to organizations in Japan. To support critical infrastructure sectors, SoftBank will launch its new Cloud PF Type A, a suite of its own proprietary cloud and AI services powered by Oracle Alloy for the Japanese market. AI services will be introduced in phases, driving innovation and growth across Japan’s digital economy. |
| NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Powers Meta and Oracle NVIDIA announced that Meta and Oracle will boost their AI data center networks with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking switches. |
| Ericsson and e& Enter Multi-Year Agreement Ericsson and e& announced that they have entered a multi-year agreement to upgrade e& UAE’s 5G Core Network by deploying Ericsson’s advanced cloud-native technologies. |
| Nokia Introduces New High-Capacity Shelves Nokia announced the launch of its new carrier-grade 1830 Photonic Service Switch-High Capacity shelves, a next-generation addition to the 1830 PSS family, one of the most widely deployed optical transport platforms globally. The new shelves deliver up to three times higher density with up to 60% lower power consumption per bit, enabling service providers to scale their networks more cost-effectively. |
| Nokia Unveils Mobile Broadband Index Report 2025 Nokia announced the latest edition of its Mobile Broadband Index Report 2025, which provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving mobile broadband ecosystem across the Middle East and Africa region. |
| Cloudflare Channel Business Accelerates Cloudflare announced the acceleration of its channel business with new solution bundles across its platform for partners. |
| Cloudflare Integrates Services with Oracle Cloud Cloudflare announced that its connectivity cloud platform will be available natively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for customers worldwide. This will enable joint customers to leverage Cloudflare’s security, performance, and resiliency directly from OCI across hybrid, multicloud, and OCI hosted applications. |
| Fortinet Annual Report Indicates AI Skillsets Critical Fortinet announced the release of its 2025 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, shedding light on the new and persistent challenges organizations face due to the cybersecurity skills gap. |
| OpenVPN Unveils Access Server 3.0 OpenVPN announced the release of Access Server 3.0, a major update to its self-hosted business VPN solution that delivers foundational improvements to performance, flexibility, and system integration, marking a new era for the platform. |
| Echelon Emerges from Stealth Echelon announced that it has emerged from stealth and has raised $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. Its AI agents compress ServiceNow implementations from months to days, replacing the need for offshore developers that have made enterprise IT rollouts slow, expensive and often unreliable. Additional investors include leading angels and executives from Anthropic, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Meta, Atlassian and PagerDuty. |
