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| DE-CIX Networks Hit Record Traffic: Frankfurt Tops 20 Tbit/s DE-CIX Frankfurt reached 20 terabits per second, equivalent to 11 million TikTok videos, while its global network surpassed 30 terabits per second, setting new records during UEFA Europa League matches. This milestone highlights a 140 percent traffic increase since 2020, driven by streaming, cloud, gaming, and AI. |
| Ericsson Predicts Agentic AI to Transform Network Traffic by 2030 Ericsson ConsumerLab released a new report, 'An agentic life,' predicting agentic AI will transform network traffic by 2030. The report finds 38 percent of smartphone users expect to use agentic AI for daily tasks, with super users driving 80 percent of AI activity. This will necessitate efficient network management for rapid AI response, potentially saving users an hour of daily browsing time. |
| AWS Announces Agentic Grid Planning for Utilities Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Agentic Grid Planning on AWS, a new program designed to help utilities accelerate complex interconnection studies. This initiative provides access to AWS-managed AI agents that streamline data preparation and analysis, significantly reducing manual work. |
| Empire Fiber Internet Launches 100% Fiber in Berwick PA Empire Fiber Internet has launched its 100% fiber network in Berwick, PA, backed by a $1.4 million local investment. Over 2,800 homes and businesses now have access to high-speed fiber internet, offering symmetrical upload and download speeds and local 24/7 customer support. |
| XKL MediaLight Delivers Low-Latency DCI for AI Workloads XKL, a leader in optical networking, has enhanced it's MediaLight products to optimize for AI and high-performance computing workloads. These systems enhance data center interconnects (DCI) by providing sub-5us optical transport, preventing latency and GPU idle time across regional compute clusters. |
| Deutsche Telekom IoT Adds Iridium for Global Satellite Roaming Deutsche Telekom IoT has partnered with Iridium to integrate its global LEO satellite network into Deutsche Telekom IoT’s multi-orbit roaming portfolio. This provides 24/7 satellite IoT connectivity for standard 5G devices worldwide, enabling connectivity even when terrestrial mobile coverage is unavailable. A live demonstration with a Toyota vehicle successfully transmitted a voice message via Iridium's network. |
| Mavenir Announces NetAIShield for AI-Native Fraud Protection Mavenir launched NetAIShield, an AI-native fraud protection framework, designed to secure telecom networks and subscribers against sophisticated fraud campaigns. The multi-layered AI defense platform correlates network telemetry, subscriber behavior, and threat indicators in real-time, extending protection to individual subscribers with a personal AI assistant. This innovation builds on Mavenir's proven security portfolio, protecting over one billion subscribers globally. |
| Nokia and Microsoft Expand Partnership for AI-Driven Network Automation Nokia and Microsoft are extending their partnership to accelerate network automation, developing an agentic, unified data foundation for telecom providers. This collaboration integrates Nokia Data Suite with Microsoft Fabric, enabling faster access to high-quality, trusted data in minutes. Operators can now scale autonomous, AI-driven operations across multi-vendor, cross-domain environments, moving from fragmented data to a more unified and intelligent network stack. |
| Orange and Telesat Launch Europe's First Lightspeed Gateway Orange and Telesat have officially commissioned Europe's inaugural Telesat Lightspeed Gateway in France, hosted at Orange's Bercenay-en-Othe teleport. This state-of-the-art ground station is crucial for the next-generation low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, designed to deliver secure, reliable, and low-latency connectivity. |
| Vodafone Egypt deploys Ericsson AI RAN Processor for 5G Advanced Ericsson and Vodafone Egypt announce the commercial deployment of Ericsson’s latest high-capacity and AI-powered RAN Processor 6672. This solution enables AI-native operations directly at the radio site, delivering up to four times higher processing capacity and reducing energy use by over 50 percent. It prepares Vodafone Egypt's network for 5G Advanced and enhanced customer experiences. |
| Kapwork Offers Free BEAD Tracker for Contractors Kapwork introduced Growth Suite, a free platform for small businesses to find infrastructure work and access capital. The suite includes a BEAD tracker for the $42.45 billion federal broadband program and free invoice certification, verifying receivables and matching businesses with credit providers for faster funding. Upcoming trackers will cover data center fit-outs and federal contract awards. |
| VodafoneThree Activates Ericsson 5G Core Ericsson and VodafoneThree have achieved a significant milestone, activating VodafoneThree's upgraded cloud-native 5G Core network. This rollout, part of a SEK 12.5 billion partnership, leverages Ericsson's dual-mode 5G Core to create one of Europe's largest mobile packet cores with 9 Tbps capacity. It lays the foundation for advanced differentiated connectivity services, including network slicing, for 28.6 million customers across the UK, promising enhanced performance and resilience. |
| Fortinet Invests $30M in New Calgary Cybersecurity Hub Fortinet has officially opened its state-of-the-art Cybersecurity Innovation Hub in downtown Calgary, Alberta, representing a $30 million investment. This new facility will serve as a critical center for advancing cybersecurity innovation, education, and customer engagement, reinforcing Fortinet’s long-term commitment to strengthening cyber resilience across Canada and globally. |
| Rohde & Schwarz Powers Automated SAR Measurements for MWF Microwave Factory (MWF) and Rohde & Schwarz have collaborated to enable fast and fully automated SAR measurements on 5G NR and LTE devices. MATEOS, the high-speed SAR measurement software from MWF, now integrates SPEAG’s cSAR3D vector array system with the CMX500 one-box signaling tester in one workflow. |
| ZTE Boosts Donghai E-Commerce 14% with 5G-Advanced ZTE and China Mobile Jiangsu have successfully deployed a 5G-Advanced Agentic E2E solution in Donghai, significantly boosting local e-commerce growth. This innovative deployment has enabled multi-fold uplink rate improvements and zero buffering for livestreamers, resolving network challenges at the Donghai Crystal Livestreaming Hub. The project has already led to a 14% year-on-year increase in crystal e-commerce sales. |
| Nokia Defense and C3IA Partner for UK Defense Digital Transformation Nokia Defense and C3IA have signed an MoU to accelerate the digital transformation of UK Defense operations. This strategic partnership combines Nokia's advanced connectivity expertise with C3IA's systems engineering and security services, aiming to deliver resilient multi-domain capabilities for modern military operations, including tactical communications, C2, and edge computing. The collaboration builds on their participation in the UK MOD TacSys framework. |
| Dell'Oro Sees 92% Data Center Capex Rise on AI Demand Dell'Oro Group reports global data center capital expenditures surged 92% in 2Q 2026, driven by intense AI infrastructure investment across compute, storage, and networking. Rising memory and storage prices also significantly increased server average selling prices. |
| Nokia AI-RAN Adoption Grows with Global Operator Trials Nokia announced growing global momentum for AI-RAN, with operators across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East advancing AI-RAN from early evaluation to lab and live field trials. This accelerates the evolution toward AI-native 6G networks, demonstrating how AI-RAN is rapidly moving from industry vision to commercial reality with partners like NVIDIA. The platform has already delivered over 20% improvements in spectral efficiency. |
| BT Drone SIM Powers UK Police Operations for Rail Safety BT Business and British Transport Police have launched the UK's first national routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations. Utilizing BT's Drone SIM and EE's resilient mobile network, this initiative enables faster, safer responses to incidents across Britain's rail network. The connected drone technology provides real-time intelligence, improving decision-making and minimizing passenger disruption from trespass and welfare incidents. |
| Cisco Scales Trusted AI for Splunk with Help from NVIDIA and AWS Cisco is addressing the biggest barrier to enterprise AI adoption - confidence - through new Splunk innovations. These advancements enable customers to safely and cost-efficiently scale AI wherever their data resides, including an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to bring self-managed AI to on-premises environments. Additionally, new Tokenomics solutions provide real-time visibility into AI spending and agent usage, while a multi-year agreement with AWS will co-develop security solutions. |
| Oracle Boosts Post-Quantum Cryptography Capabilities with Java 27 Oracle has announced the availability of Java 27, the latest version of its leading programming language, delivering thousands of performance, stability, security, and productivity improvements. This release significantly advances Java's post-quantum cryptography capabilities with hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3, preparing organizations for more secure communications in a post-quantum world. |
| Fortinet Invests $60M in New NYC Innovation Hub Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader, has announced a significant expansion of its U.S. presence with the opening of a new company-owned Innovation Hub in New York City. Representing an investment of over $60 million, this 40,000-square-foot facility will triple Fortinet’s previous NYC office size, providing enhanced access for customers and partners to cybersecurity experts, hands-on technology demonstrations, executive briefings, and training. |
| Antevia Networks and Ontix Deliver Shared 5G RAN Connectivity Antevia Networks and Ontix announced a successful demonstration of public MNO and private 5G connectivity running simultaneously over the same radio access network. This milestone uses Ontix's Nexus MOCN gateway, enabling shared in-building 5G for both public mobile coverage and private network services without requiring separate radio deployments. The integration improves economics for building owners and MNOs by supporting multiple requirements with a single infrastructure investment. |
| Netmore and Cibicom Partner on Nordic LoRaWAN Roaming Netmore Group and Cibicom, Denmark's largest LoRaWAN operator, announced a strategic partnership for unified Nordic LoRaWAN roaming. Cibicom will replace its LoRaWAN Network Server with Netmore’s ThingPark Platform, enhancing scalability and enabling seamless cross-border IoT applications in transport, logistics, and environmental monitoring across the Nordic region. |
| Unryo AI Delivers Telecom Observability with TM Forum APIs Unryo delivers agentic observability for telecom through TM Forum Open APIs. Its agentic AI correlates multi-vendor network alarms into diagnosed, root-cause incidents, utilizing TMF642 for inbound alarm management and TMF724 for outbound incidents. TMF915 ensures Unryo's AI agents are governable and auditable, supporting regulatory compliance and operator control. This standardizes AI data consumption and governance for telecom. |
