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| Akamai to Acquire LayerX Akamai announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LayerX, a leading provider of browser-based AI usage control and secure enterprise browser technology. |
| Verizon Joins Anthropic Project Verizon announced that it is partnering with Anthropic as a member of Project Glasswing, an initiative dedicated to securing the world’s critical infrastructure for the AI era. This improves Verizon’s ability to identify and contain complex vulnerabilities and maintains its high standards of network protection. |
| CoreWeave Launches Sandboxes CoreWeave announced CoreWeave Sandboxes, an execution layer that gives AI researchers and platform teams secure, isolated environments for running reinforcement learning, agent tool use, and model evaluation. The new offering is available on a customer's own CoreWeave infrastructure or as a serverless runtime through Weights & Biases. |
| IonQ Opens Quantum Computing R&D Lab IonQ announced a new laboratory suite in Boulder, Colorado that will house state-of-the-art Quantum Computing R&D and semiconductor chip testing facilities that will be used to develop and refine technologies central to future generations of its leading quantum computing systems. |
| NEC Completes Acquisition of CSG Systems NEC announced the completion of its acquisition of CSG Systems. The transaction brings together two highly complementary organizations, resulting in a stronger global software business with expanded capabilities across customer engagement, monetization, operations, AI-driven automation and cloud-native platforms. |
| NEC Completes Construction of EMCS Submarine Cable NEC announced that it has completed construction of the East Micronesia Cable System, a submarine cable connecting three Pacific island nations. The cable has been handed over, to the Federated States of Micronesia's submarine cable operator, FSM Telecommunications Cable Corporation, the Republic of Kiribati's state-owned telecommunications company Bwebweriki Net Limited, and the Republic of Nauru's state-owned telecommunications company Cenpac Corporation. |
| Vodafone Ireland Goes Live with Amdocs Network Amdocs announced that Vodafone Ireland has successfully gone live with Amdocs’ latest Network Inventory solution as part of its initiative to modernize, harmonize, and evolve its network operations. |
| Lumen Technologies Accelerates Cloud-First Strategy with Amdocs Amdocs announced that Lumen Technologies is accelerating its cloud-first strategy with Amdocs, expanding the migration of mission-critical platforms to the public cloud with the migration of one of its enterprise billing platforms to Microsoft Azure. |
| Keysight and SRC UK Collaborate Keysight announced a strategic collaboration with SRC UK Limited to support EW customers globally in modernizing their test and simulation environments. The initiative will help accelerate adoption of Keysight’s EWASP, enabling customers to transition to open, scalable, and software-defined architectures with greater efficiency and reduced operational risk. |
| NEC Launches Orbital Transfer Vehicle Development Project NEC announced that it has launched a project to develop an Orbital Transfer Vehicle following its selection by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the agency’s decision to award NEC with a grant for the technology development theme Technologies for Realizing Flexible Mobility in Space: (A) Development of Inter-Orbital Transportation Vehicles. |
| SAP Announces Autonomous Enterprise SAP announced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance the world’s most critical business workflows, so that humans and AI work together to meet the accelerating demands of global business profitably, strategically and safely. |
| ZTE and Telkom Indonesia Sign MoU ZTE announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk to strengthen strategic cooperation in the development of digital solutions and infrastructure. |
| Amdocs Entitlement Server Sets Performance Benchmark Amdocs announced that its Entitlement Server, the core of the Amdocs eSIM Cloud, has achieved a sustained 12,000 Transactions Per Second across three geographically distributed Microsoft Azure regions in a production-grade, active-active deployment. This milestone represents one of the highest publicly benchmarked throughput levels for a carrier-grade entitlement server. |
| Ericsson, China Mobile and OPPO Complete 5G SA Network Slicing Ericsson, China Mobile and OPPO announced that they have successfully completed China Mobile’s first consumer-oriented User Equipment-level slicing and application-level slicing test on the live 5G Standalone commercial network in Dezhou city, Shandong province. |
| DE-CIX to Join Mplify Alliance DE-CIX announced its membership in Mplify, a global alliance shaping the evolution of Network as a Service. Among the early IX operators worldwide to join the alliance, DE-CIX will contribute its expertise to the advancement of standardized and automated connectivity solutions for peering, cloud connectivity, and AI connectivity, while collaborating on the use of Mplify’s Lifecycle Service Orchestration APIs as a framework for interconnection automation. |
| Archtop Fiber Scales Mission-Critical Infrastructure Archtop Fiber announced a partnership with the Town of Warwick and the Warwick Police Department to deliver high-speed fiber Internet and VoIP services to local government and law enforcement facilities. The upgrade will provide faster, more reliable connectivity to support town operations, emergency response efforts and public services for Warwick residents. |
| EXFO Selected by OXG EXFO announced that OXG, operator of an open-access wholesale-first fiber infrastructure in Germany, has selected EXFO as its technology partner to integrate Remote Fiber Testing & Monitoring into their operational and monitoring processes, providing real time visibility and automated fault detection across the entire infrastructure. |
| Avaya Infinity Pairs With Avatarin Robots Avaya announced that avatarin selected Avaya Infinity to modernize its communications ecosystem. This unique customer experience application seamlessly orchestrates AI-powered social robots with chat and phone. Leveraging Avaya’s tandem care approach and new Avaya Infinity capabilities, avatarin ensures a consistent experience for collaborative AI and human support across digital and physical environments including airline reservation desks, local government service counters, and retail floors. |
| Argonne Researchers to Develop Learning-Based Robots Argonne National Laboratory announced that they are developing a new way for robots to learn and adapt to many different hands-on laboratory tasks. The goal is to create robots that can work alongside scientists in real lab environments and adjust to changing conditions. |
| Faraday Future Announces that FF AI-Robotics has Signed an MOU with RobotShop Faraday Future Intelligent Electric announced that FF AI-Robotics has signed an MOU with RobotShop, one of North America’s leading robotics-focused e-commerce platforms. RobotShop is FF’s first FF PAR partner in the EAI robotics category. As part of this MOU, FF's EAI robotics products are already live and available for purchase on RobotShop's platform, with the broader partnership framework to be further developed under the terms of the agreement. |
| Adtran Expands SDG 8700 Series Adtran announced an expansion of its SDG 8700 Series, extending Wi-Fi 7 across a broader range of residential service tiers and deployment models. |
| Patero and Orilla Secure the Industrial Edge Patero and Orilla announced a strategic partnership to deliver a secure, scalable “edge-to-enterprise” platform for industrial operations. |
| Qrypt and PANTHEON.tech Bring Quantum-Safe Keyless Encryption Qrypt and PANTHEON.tech announced the publication of qp-vpp, an open-source integration of Qrypt’s BLAST protocol with VPP, the high-performance data plane underlying SONiC deployments worldwide. This is the latest example of what quantum entropy makes possible: a WireGuard tunnel running in SONiC-VPP networks where the session key is never transmitted. |
| Calix 50G-PON Extends Platform Advantage Calix announced that it is extending the Calix One platform into the next era of high-capacity fiber innovation, enabling service providers to evolve their networks to support future residential, business, and multi-dwelling unit growth with secure connectivity. By supporting standards-based 50G-PON within its AI-native platform, Calix will deliver a practical path to deliver capacity where it matters without disrupting existing operations. |
| Oracle AI Database@AWS Now in Switzerland Oracle and AWS announced that they are now offering Oracle AI Database@AWS to customers in Switzerland. With the offering’s debut in the AWS Europe Region, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure within AWS. |
