SmartViser formed a strategic partnership to revolutionize the testing, monitoring, and assurance of mobile and private networks. Omantel and Optiva 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. 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.

Beanfield has deployed DZS Velocity fiber access platforms and Helix optical network terminals to deliver among the fastest internet speeds in Canada. Beanfield is leveraging DZS’ market-leading technology to offer its residential and business subscribers multi-gigabit services up to 8 Gigabits per second in multiple dwelling units in many of Canada’s largest cities. Rohde & Schwarz and IMST GmbH have developed a patented antenna digital twin solution, effectively addressing a multitude of challenges and delivering considerable benefits for vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers to optimize automotive connectivity.

AI & Analytics News

Microsoft and Rezolve AI formed 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 introduced the Oracle Financial Services Crime and Compliance Management Investigation Hub Cloud Service. The new AI-powered case management solution delivers a modern user experience that reduces manual tasks, removes data silos, and elevates the insights investigators need to focus their time on analysis and combating financial crime. ServiceNow and Snowflake have formed a Zero Copy partnership that connects enterprise-wide data to help solve mission-critical problems at scale. The Zero Copy integration will leverage Snowflake’s powerful enterprise AI platform to allow customers to trigger ServiceNow workflows directly from Snowflake.

SAP revealed new innovations and embedded artificial intelligence across the SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite that provides organizations with greater efficiencies and unparalleled experiences. NVIDIA shared that xAI’s Colossus supercomputer cluster comprising 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper Tensor Core GPUs in Memphis, Tennessee, achieved this massive scale by using the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, which is designed to deliver superior performance to multi-tenant, hyperscale AI factories using standards-based Ethernet, for its Remote Direct Memory Access network. Netcracker and du will closely collaborate on leveraging Netcracker’s GenAI Telco Solution to foster innovation, enhance service delivery and elevate the overall customer experience across du’s network.

Lumen and Meta are partnering to significantly increase Meta's network capacity and help drive its bold AI ambitions. The expanded network will provide dedicated interconnection for Meta's industry-leading infrastructure, strengthening and increasing the company's ability to lead in AI development. Gluware released a series of new offerings and capabilities that will help network engineers, operators and automation developers deliver network security, AI-readiness, and performance assurance better, faster and more affordably, using flawless intent-based intelligent network automation.

IoT and Innovation News

IonQ expanded their relationship with the Air Force Research Lab to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development. Vodafone Business IoT collaborated with Kigen to reduce the time and operational burden involved for enterprises in the development of IoT products and services. As a result, the two companies’ iSIM technology is commercially available directly on multiple chipsets, with delivery times faster than any previous generation of SIM. Pairpoint and Mastercard shared a new collaboration and payments service that will allow fleet, freight, shipping, and logistics operators to authorize machines to trade with other machines on their behalf.