Vodafone Italy Extends and Expands Relationship with Amdocs Amdocs announced a five-year extension of its strategic collaboration with Vodafone Italy. Under the new agreement, Amdocs will modernize the Italian service provider’s business platform to cloud-ready and cloud-native solutions, and migrate the operator's business support systems environment to the Microsoft Azure cloud. |
NEC Receives Order for Next-Generation Supercomputer NEC announced that it has received an order for a next-generation supercomputer system from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, under the National Research and Development Agency, and the National Institute for Fusion Science, part of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences under the Inter-University Research Institute Corporation. The new supercomputer system is scheduled to be operational from July 2025. |
T Mobile Enhances Home and Small Business Internet Backup Plans T-Mobile announced it's amping Home Internet Backup and Small Business Internet Backup plans with more data to help traditional ISP customers stay connected when their primary ISP has an outage. |
IonQ Strengthens Technical Moat IonQ announced the issuance of five new U.S. patents designed to deliver benefits across multiple industries and applications. With the pending acquisition of Qubitekk’s 118 patents, IonQ will have a total of over 600 U.S. and international issued and pending patents, standing apart from similarly-sized quantum companies based on its strength of IP protection and extensive combination of patents across different verticals. |
Vodafone and AMD Collaborate Vodafone and AMD announced that they are collaborating on mobile base station silicon chip designs that will give 5G radios the required horsepower to meet future customer demand for higher-capacity AI and digital services, quickly and reliably. |
Juniper Networks and Recogni Announce GenAI Collaboration Juniper Networks and Recogni announced Juniper’s investment in Recogni and an ongoing collaboration. Juniper has participated in Recogni’s $102 million Series C funding round, which has been co-led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint Ventures. |
China Mobile and ZTE Launch AI-Driven Green Telco Cloud ZTE announced that in partnership with China Mobile it has launched an AI-Driven Green Telco Cloud solution with diverse hardware architectures. This solution leverages their exploration and experience in telco network energy-saving technologies, focusing on the application of artificial intelligence to enhance energy efficiency in telco cloud environments. |
IBM Releases State of Sustainability Readiness Report 2024 IBM announced the release of its first-ever State of Sustainability Readiness Report 2024, revealing that 88% of business leaders surveyed are planning to increase investment in IT for sustainability over the next 12 months. The research showcases that over half of respondents across a range of industries see investing in technology for sustainability as an opportunity for growth, not just cost mitigation. |
Nokia, Reflex and Net Nine Nine Partner Nokia announced that in partnership with Reflex and Net Nine Nine, it will expand broadband access for underserved communities across South Africa. The collaboration, led by Reflex, will utilize Nokia’s fiber broadband solution to bring affordable broadband access to millions of people, supporting essential digital services such as online education, telehealth, and remote working that are crucial to economic growth and social inclusion. |
EonFibre is Now Open for Business Cisco announced that EonFibre is now operational, offering a cost-effective, secure and resilient fibre alternative for selected wholesale customers including hyperscalers. |
Cisco Introduces Intelligent, Secure and Assured Wi-Fi 7 Cisco announced new intelligent, secure and assured wireless innovations, with smart Wi-Fi 7 access points and unified subscription licensing that can enable smart spaces out-of-the-box. These innovations empower customers to solve for their connectivity, security and assurance challenges, while also providing a flexible foundation to future-proof their workplaces. |
VIAVI Recieves Certification From Compute Express Link Consortium VIAVI announced that the VIAVI Xgig CXL Exerciser has received CXL 2.0 Gold Suite certification from the Compute Express Link Consortium. This certification enables the Xgig CXL Exerciser to qualify CXL devices for inclusion in the CXL v2.0 Integrators List, and continues VIAVI’s leadership in this critical technology segment. |
Keysight Introduces Portable Millimeter-wave Analysis Keysight Technologies announced that it has expanded the frequency range of its FieldFox handheld signal analyzers, offering up to 170 GHz support for millimeter-wave signal analysis. Through a collaboration with Virginia Diodes, Keysight’s A- and B-Series FieldFox handheld analyzers with 18 GHz or higher, can be paired with VDI PSAX frequency extenders to cover sub-THz frequency range. |
ServiceNow to Acquire Mission Secure ServiceNow announced that they have signed an agreement to acquire Mission Secure, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based company focused on providing asset discovery for operational technology devices. This will help customers gain visibility and context into their OT environments and minimize downtime with dependable service management. |
Ericsson and e& UAE sign MoU Ericsson and e& announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, for the collaborative exploration of 6G technology, its use cases and future network evolution. |
euNetworks First to Deploy 1.6 TB Coherent Solution in Europe euNetworks announced Europe’s first-ever 1.6 Tb/s coherent solution deployment using Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme, the industry’s first 1.6 Tb/s coherent transceiver. |
Nokia and Fibertime Expand Broadband Access Nokia announced that Fibertime will deploy its fiber solution to rapidly expand broadband access to underserved regions of South Africa. Fibertime will quickly connect the next 1.5 million customers leveraging Nokia’s Lightspan FX Optical Line Terminals and Wi-Fi 6 enabled Optical Network Terminals. Nokia’s technologies are key to enabling Fibertime’s flagship product: R5 a day for uncapped, unthrottled internet. |
Hugging Face and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open-Source AI Robotics Hugging Face and NVIDIA announced a collaboration to accelerate robotics research and development by bringing together their open-source robotics communities. |
Ciena Technology to Underpin Terabit-speed Connectivity at SC24 Ciena announced that its optical and routing and switching innovations will once again support the SCinet network at SC24, taking place at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. |
Cisco and the OECD Release Digital Well-being Hub Cisco and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development announced the launch of the Digital Well-being Hub, the world's first cross-cutting study into the complex relationship between digital technologies and individual well-being. As AI and technology rapidly transform the ways we live, work, and connect, there has never been a comprehensive understanding of the overall impact of digital transformation on our well-being. Until now. |
CrowdStrike Launches AI Red Team Services CrowdStrike announced the launch of CrowdStrike AI Red Team Services, reinforcing its leadership in protecting the infrastructure, systems and models driving the AI revolution. Leveraging CrowdStrike’s world-class threat intelligence and elite-expertise in real-world adversary tactics, these specialized services proactively identify and help mitigate vulnerabilities in AI systems, including Large Language Models, so organizations can drive secure AI innovation with confidence. |
CrowdStrike and Ignition Technology Expand Partnership CrowdStrike announced an expanded distribution partnership with Ignition Technology, bringing the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform to Ignition’s partner base in Ireland. |
TM Forum, Huawei, and Industry Partners Jointly Release Whitepaper Huawei announced that at TM Forum's Innovate Asia Summit, TM Forum, Huawei, and industry partners released the Autonomous Networks Levels Evaluation Whitepaper and awarded certificates to the first group of operators to have completed an autonomous network level evaluation. |
ZTE And Turkcell Set New Benchmark Turkcell and ZTE announced that the two parties have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in telecommunications by setting the record for Europe's fastest 5G-Advanced speed, surpassing 32 Gbps during an ambitious trial in Istanbul. |
ZTE Unveils Industry's First AI FWA Solution ZTE announced that it has debuted the industry's first AI-powered full-stack FWA solution, the ZTE Nebula AI FWA Solution. Guided by its upgraded product philosophy, AI-powered GIS 2.0, this solution was introduced at its first-ever ZTE Devices User Congress focused on FWA & MBB. |