mobile coverage gaps. Nokia and DE-CIX upgraded the backbone network for DE-CIX New York, the largest IX in NY and in the US Northeast region. The DE-CIX backbone will be upgraded to 400 Gigabit Ethernet using Nokia optical technology and redesigned in a ring topology, redundantly interconnecting the 10 data center facilities where DE-CIX infrastructure is housed and enhancing the resiliency of the platform for all participants. Keysight and the University of Malaga have opened a 6G research and innovation Lab. The facility is dedicated to advancing 6G technology through comprehensive solutions that address key use cases and technological challenges.

The Brazilian National Observatory has integrated Adtran's OSA 3300 Super High-Performance optical cesium atomic clock into its timekeeping infrastructure. The deployment marks the first use of an optical pumping cesium clock at the observatory, enabling it to maintain and distribute legal Brazilian time with unmatched performance. Keysight and Alea S.r.l. have validated the first mission-critical 3GPP Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access test case for mission-critical-push-to-talk at the recent Global Certification Forum Conformance Agreement Group meeting. The validation was conducted using the Keysight S8704A Protocol Conformance Toolset. Spirent released its sixth annual 5G Outlook Report, based on analysis and takeaways from 415 new 5G engagements globally in 2024. With the 5G era now at its midpoint, the latest Spirent report also looks at progress made during the first five years of 5G, and highlights some of the key tactics being prioritized to grow revenues and opportunities in the second half of 5G’s implementation.

Rohde & Schwarz has launched the R&S ADD507 compact DF antenna. This innovative direction finding antenna is designed to meet the evolving needs of spectrum regulators and military spectrum managers, offering unparalleled performance and versatility. RANsemi has partnered with Antevia Networks for its 5G SHIFT enterprise private 5G platform. 5G SHIFT employs Open RAN fronthaul technology in its Radio Units running on RANsemi 5G PHY SoCs to enhance in-building wireless coverage. The Antevia 5G SHIFT platform, based on a virtualized radio access network architecture that deploys a "shared cell" topology, is currently running in live public trials in multiple locations across the United Kingdom. Nokia, NTT, and Anritsu Corporation successfully conducted a first-of-its-kind Proof of Concept to demonstrate the effectiveness of Elastic networking in bringing down energy usage in mobile networks.

NEC has utilized its video analysis and generative AI to develop a technology that provides advice for improving worker performance by identifying differences between model actions and actual movements. Optiva's BSS platform and charging engine now incorporate agentic AI using advanced generative AI technology powered by Google’s Gemini models. Amdocs rereased its amAIz Suite, a comprehensive, modular, pluggable offering designed to break down data silos, predict customer needs, and proactively and autonomously act upon them, redefining Generative AI for communications service providers regardless of where they are in their data journey. Scientists everywhere can now access NVIDIA's Evo 2, a powerful new foundation model that understands the genetic code for all domains of life. Unveiled as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University. NVIDIA also announced that they have expanded their partnership with Cisco to provide AI technology solutions to enterprises that recognize AI is essential to growth but remain early in their adoption as they navigate the unique technical complexity and security demands of operating AI-ready data centers.

Juniper Networks has embarked on a new round of innovations for its routing portfolio that expedite deployment and enhance routing troubleshooting at scale. By leveraging Mist AI, Juniper’s industry-leading platform for AI-native operations, Juniper’s WAN routing solution has been enhanced with even more automation and insight for end-to-end routing observability and control. Rohde & Schwarz has successfully validated machine learning-based channel-state information feedback compression for 5G-Advanced networks with support from Qualcomm, demonstrating a significant increase in throughput compared to conventional methods. This breakthrough confirms the feasibility of cross-vendor AI implementation in wireless communications with the aim of enhancing network performance.

CrowdStrike announced the general availability of Charlotte AI Detection Triage, a major breakthrough in agentic AI-driven security operations. Operating with customer-defined bounded autonomy, Charlotte AI triages security detections with over 98 percent accuracy, eliminating more than 40 hours of manual work per week on average to scale SOC operations and accelerate response times to the most critical threats. In other CrowdStrike news, the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform achieved 100 percent detection, 100 percent protection, and 100 percent accuracy in the 2024 SE Labs Enterprise Advanced Security Ransomware Test. Fortinet