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| NEC Overseas Business Transfers NEC Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement with a consortium led by Assist Group S.r.l. to transfer its overseas network equipment resale business as well as its IT services business for governments and local authorities in certain countries, which includes system development for biometric authentication and smart cities. |
| Cloudflare Gives AI Purchasing Power Cloudflare, Inc. announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay to give AI agents deployed on Cloudflare a stable identity and the ability to make purchases online safely within limits set by their human creators. |
| Corero, TierPoint Partner for DDoS Protection Corero Network Security announced its technology now powers TierPoint's new Adapt DDoS Protection service. This partnership delivers always-on, managed DDoS mitigation with low latency detection and automated responses. Corero SmartWall ONE technology reduced mitigation times for TierPoint customers from minutes to seconds during active attacks. |
| Agentic AI Inference Gets Marvell's New Memory Stack Marvell Technology, Inc. announced new innovations in its AI memory infrastructure portfolio, advancing its position in AI storage, rack-scale CXL memory expansion and pooling, and pod-level optical shared memory. The portfolio helps hyperscalers and cloud providers scale memory, improving utilization, scalability, and token efficiency for agentic AI inference. |
| ArmorCode to Improve Agentic Vulnerability Remediation with Deeper Context ArmorCode expanded its Agentic Control Plane with four new Anya AI agents for security teams. The platform provides AI agents with context to prioritize and remediate business risks, reducing duplicate work and costs. It also unveiled new Context Risk Graph capabilities for enhanced attack path analysis, network reachability, and patch management. |
| Red Hat Opens asago Project to Automate AI Governance Red Hat announced the formation of asago, an open source community project intended to automate how AI governance policies become product-ready, safely-deployed AI systems. asago connects the fragmented steps, tools and requirements of engineer and compliance teams, to create an automated, auditable and traceable workflow. |
| Pakistan's Big Data Center Goes Live: Sky47 Karakoram-01 ZTE Corporation, a global leader in information and communication technology, has partnered with SKY47, Pakistan's premier digital infrastructure provider, to launch Karakoram-01. This landmark facility is Pakistan's first and largest purpose-built, AI-ready data center campus, designed to provide robust infrastructure for sovereign cloud, AI acceleration, and enterprise transformation. |
| 50G PON Runs Live in Japan for the First Time Adtran and TOHKnet completed Japan's first live network trial of 50G PON, demonstrating coexistence with XGS-PON and EPON on a single fiber. The trial showcased a practical path for network evolution, enabling phased upgrades while maintaining continuity for existing services and maximizing fiber assets without disruption. |
| M3, Samsung to Partner on First US Floating Data Center Mousterian Corporation, Inc., aka M3, and Samsung Heavy Industries signed an engineering contract. This agreement is for their first US floating data center deployment, a priority project under their strategic cooperation. It advances their April 2026 framework into execution, with plans for Texas. They will jointly engineer 50 MW floating data center units. The design emphasizes sustainability, featuring non-evaporative cooling and zero process discharge. |
| New Patent for Space-Based Data Centers Sophia Space and Caltech secured a US Patent for space-based data centers, covering large-scale, modular architectures using solar power and passive deep space heat radiation. This invention, born from a JPL R&D program managed by Caltech, addresses high-risk concepts. Sophia Space, founded by Dr. Leon Alkalai, is commercializing the 'TILE' architecture. |
| Ericsson Brings AI-Powered RAN to NTT DOCOMO Ericsson's next-generation RAN Compute platform was selected by NTT DOCOMO for its 5G networks in Japan. The platform uses Ericsson Silicon, optimized for 4G, 5G, and 5G Advanced, enhancing AI and machine learning RAN workloads. This enables AI-native, programmable networks, with deployment beginning in July 2026 to boost network quality for DOCOMO customers. |
| AZIO AI Signs AT&T for Fiber at 500MW AI Data Campus AZIO AI partnered with AT&T for enterprise fiber connectivity on its initial 500-megawatt Texas AI data center platform. This agreement creates a standardized, high-capacity, low-latency network crucial for AI training, GPU cloud, and high-performance computing workloads. AZIO AI committed approximately $2.4 million for these fiber services. The partnership facilitates rapid network deployment for future expansion, supporting AZIO AI's hyperscale AI strategy. |
| Tredence Becomes Select Partner in OpenAI Partner Network This partnership combines OpenAI's advanced AI models with Tredence's industry expertise and engineering capabilities. The collaboration helps organizations responsibly build, deploy, and scale AI solutions. Tredence will assist clients in maximizing value from models like GPT-5.6 and accelerating execution with ChatGPT Work. |
| AT&T Unveils 5G Standalone Core, FirstNet Built with public safety’s direct feedback, the dedicated FirstNet 5G SA core was developed to meet first responders’ unique operational and technological needs. |
| DE-CIX Research Reveals Cloud Connectivity Issues Hinder AI Adoption DE-CIX research across 400 US and UK enterprises reveals IT teams lose over a full workday weekly to cloud connectivity problems, despite 96% feeling AI-ready. This indicates a significant gap between perceived AI readiness and actual network performance in businesses. |
| AccelerComm and Eclipse Space Partner for Next-Gen Connectivity AccelerComm is working with Eclipse Space, a satellite company founded by Starlink veterans, to help design the communications technology for next-generation satellites. AccelerComm's 5G technology will power Eclipse's satellites, allowing them to deliver reliable connectivity directly to mobile devices and broadband users from space. |
| Xsight Labs Raises New Capital for Next-Gen AI and Cloud Networks Xsight Labs secured over $300 million in funding, achieving a $2.8 billion post-money valuation. CEO says valuation reflects the market need for a high-performance alternative to closed, legacy architectures. |
| Dell'Oro Reports Cable Operators Boosting Spend for DOCSIS 4.0 Dell'Oro Group reports cable operators are accelerating outside plant equipment investments, with record spending on amplifiers expected. Revenues for Cable Outside Plant Equipment should increase 20 percent in 2026, driven by new 1.8 GHz amplifiers and DAA/GAP Nodes for Remote PHY and OLT deployments. Investments will peak in 2027 as operators prepare for DOCSIS 4.0, enhancing network capacity. Spending on optical nodes, amplifiers, and passive equipment is forecasted through 2028. |
| Lightpath Reports IP Backbone Traffic Growth Lightpath reported its IP network traffic grew an annualized 32% over 18 months, driven by enterprise AI adoption and large language model platforms. This accelerated growth, surpassing historical 19%, is broad-based across its diversified customer base in 11 major U.S. metro markets, underscoring real AI-driven bandwidth demand. |
| Ericsson for the Next-Generation Rail Communications Network for Queensland Rail Ericsson announced it will provide the 5G-enabled Digital Radio System (DRS) technology in partnership with rail engineering firm UGL Transport and including mission-critical communications specialist Frequentis. |
| Marvell Invests $250M to Expand AI Innovation in India Marvell Technology, Inc. announced plans to invest $250 million in India over the next three years to expand its technology, talent, and infrastructure capabilities. This investment marks 20 years of innovation in India, aiming to double headcount and expand facilities in Bangalore and Hyderabad, supporting advanced semiconductor solutions for AI, cloud, and data infrastructure applications. |
| AT&T Business, Palo Alto Deliver Fully Managed Protection for Enterprise AT&T Business and Palo Alto Networks announced an expansion of their collaboration to help enterprises secure increasingly distributed environments by integrating advanced security directly into the network. |
| FCC Bans Foreign-made Advanced Humanoid Robots and Inverters The action follows determinations, for both robots and inverters, by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise, which determined that these foreign-made products, regardless of the nationality of origin, “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.” |
| Soracom to Manage Connected Vehicle Connectivity Soracom Automotive Suite, the company's first industry-specific solution, brings together proven platform capabilities, including carrier-independent connectivity management, remote eSIM profile switching, in-car Wi-Fi, and flexible billing, into a single offering designed for the long lifecycle of connected vehicles. |
| Leidos Unveils AI Platform to Find and Fix Cyber Vulnerabilities Leidos unveils Parcata, an AI platform designed to autonomously find and fix software vulnerabilities. This model-agnostic tool uses diverse large language models for accelerated detection and can patch zero-day threats in real time. Parcata helps organizations thwart potential cybersecurity risks. Its capabilities have been demonstrated internally and deployed against Leidos code, aligning with Leidos' NorthStar 2030 strategy for AI-enabled operational scale. |
