Nokia and fibertime Accelerate Roll-Out of Fiber Broadband Access Nokia announced that fibertime is expanding its fiber broadband access footprint to include an additional 400,000 homes located across South Africa’s underserved communities. The broadband roll-out is part of fibertime’s larger goal of connecting 2 million homes by 2028. |
Nokia Launches FTTH Digital Twin and AI-Powered Tools Nokia announced new software tools and AI-models that significantly improve operational efficiencies and enhance network reliability. The new digital features, part of Nokia’s Altiplano platform, will enable operators to create a comprehensive digital twin of their FTTH network and establish a single unified view of active and passive components. |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Closes Acquisition of Juniper Networks HPE announced the successful completion of its previously announced acquisition of Juniper Networks, Inc., a leader in AI-native networks. The combination positions HPE to capture the growing AI and hybrid cloud market opportunity by creating an industry-leading cloud-native and AI-driven IT portfolio, including a full, modern networking stack. |
Tata Communications Drives Launch of eSIM Services Tata Communications announced the successful deployment of its digital infrastructure solutions to power Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s newly launched eSIM services for millions of subscribers across India. |
Tata Communications to power Indian GST Ecosystem Tata Communications announced that it has been awarded a strategic project to deliver a comprehensive digital infrastructure, spanning network fabric, IoT, cloud, and security, with unified management across domains, for the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal benches established by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. |
Qualcomm Achieves Complete Victory Over Arm Qualcomm announced that a U.S. District Court judge granted Qualcomm a complete victory in litigation brought by Arm, rejecting Arm’s attempts to stifle innovation and confirming that neither Qualcomm nor its subsidiary Nuvia breached Nuvia’s license agreements with Arm. |
Snowflake Unveils Cortex AI for Financial Services Snowflake announced Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities and partnerships that empower financial services companies to unify their financial data ecosystem and securely deploy AI models, apps, and agents with that data, while offering rigorous security and compliance controls required in regulated industries. |
Keysight Expands End-of-Line Test Portfolio Keysight announced that it has expanded its end-of-line test portfolio with the launch of the EV2020B EV Manufacturing Functional Test Platform and the EV2020BE EV Manufacturing Functional Test Platform for EVSE. Together, these solutions provide automakers and electric vehicle supply equipment manufacturers with a scalable, flexible approach to production testing that accelerates time-to-market, reduces costs, and ensures readiness for evolving industry standards. |
AWS Directory Service Enables New Upgrades AWS announced that AWS Directory Service now enables customers to upgrade Managed Microsoft AD from Standard to Enterprise Edition programmatically through the UpdateDirectorySetup API. The self-service edition upgrade eliminates the need for support tickets when scaling Managed Microsoft AD directories. |
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile Open Doors to European Space and Land-Based Network Lab Vodafone, AST SpaceMobile and the University of Malaga announced the opening of Europe’s first research laboratory dedicated to developing integrated low earth orbit space and land-based mobile broadband services. |
Vodafone and Nokia Achieve World-First Vodafone and Nokia announced that they have successfully trialled a new internet technology on a live commercial fibre broadband network, which can significantly reduce internet delays during gaming or videoconferencing, as well as improve the customer experience when streaming content. |
HP Accelerates AI Solutions HP announced new products and services designed to help people work without limits with greater ease and purpose. Transforming and simplifying the work experience, HP is boosting productivity, sparking creativity, and driving fulfillment. |
IBM and AMD Collaborate with Zyphra IBM and AMD announced a collaboration to deliver advanced AI infrastructure to Zyphra, an open-source AI research and product company based in San Francisco, California. Under a multi-year agreement between IBM and Zyphra, IBM is positioned to deliver a large cluster of AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs on IBM Cloud for Zyphra to use for training frontier multimodal foundation models. |
Gilat Receives Orders to Supply Transportable SATCOM Terminals to U.S. Army Gilat Satellite Networks announced that Gilat DataPath has received orders of more than $7 million to provide additional Transportable SATCOM Terminals to the U.S. Army through a prime contractor. The orders include multiple units of the DKET 3421 transportable terminal along with associated support services, with deliveries scheduled for completion before the end of 2025. |
Keysight Unveils 3GPP AI Simulation Platform Keysight announced the release of WirelessPro 3GPP AI Simulation Platform, a next-generation software platform designed to meet the evolving needs of wireless communication system engineers. The new solution delivers a unified environment for modeling, prototyping, and validating advanced wireless technologies, with deep integration of AI/ML capabilities and alignment with the latest third-generation partnership project specifications. |
DOCOMO and PaMeLa Develop Technology to Share Pain Perception NTT DOCOMO and PaMeLa announced that they have developed a groundbreaking technology that integrates DOCOMO’s human-augmentation platformTM with PaMeLa’s brain-wave based pain-measurement technology. The new technology estimates individual differences in pain sensitivity, allowing for the sharing of pain perception tailored to the recipient’s experience. This marks a significant milestone as the world’s first technology enabling pain sharing based on individual perception. |
Vodafone and Telenor Form Partnership Vodafone and Telenor announced a new strategic partnership between their respective global procurement organisations, Telenor Procurement Company and Vodafone Procurement Company. The strategic partnership aims to leverage the scale and global capabilities of both groups across major areas of procurement. |
Huawei Launches One Network, One Cloud, Three Platforms Architecture Huawei announced new top-level architecture for industry digitalization and intelligence called One Network, One Cloud, Three Platforms. |
Fortune and ServiceNow Reveal the 2025 Fortune AIQ 50 List Fortune and ServiceNow announced the inaugural Fortune AIQ 50 List, a definitive ranking of Fortune 500 companies that are generating significant and measurable impact with artificial intelligence. |
ServiceNow Unveils AI Experience ServiceNow announced AI Experience, a unified, conversational front door to enterprise AI. With its context aware interface, the new AI Experience unites people and AI in a seamless, multimodal environment with built in governance, security, and the trust and transparency customers need as they implement AI meant for scale. |
Nokia Strengthens Leadership in AI-Ready Data Center Networks Nokia and Keysight announced the successful end-to-end testing of UET traffic across its family of high-performance data center switching platforms, including the Nokia 7220 Interconnect Router and 7250 IXR. |
Cisco Introduces Agentic Capabilities Cisco announced solutions to foster dynamic collaboration between people and AI agents in the workplace. This includes new agentic capabilities in Cisco AI Assistant, RoomOS 26 for Cisco Devices, and purpose-built integrations across Cisco devices and the Webex Suite to help organizations easily manage and work seamlessly with digital agents. |
Cisco Unveils Advanced AI-Powered Webex Contact Center Solutions Cisco announced enhancements to the Webex Customer Experience portfolio, including a new AI-powered tool for supervisors launching in early 2026 to unify quality management across the contact center. Cisco also unveiled AI customer momentum, deep industry integrations for seamless and secure experiences, and planned Webex ecosystem expansions in India and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
UiPath Announces Partnership with Snowflake UiPath announced a partnership with Snowflake uniting UiPath’s Agentic Automation platform with Snowflake Cortex AI. This collaboration empowers businesses to quickly turn data insights into faster and smarter autonomous actions, bridging the gap between vision and impact across enterprise business processes. |
HoneyBook Acquires Fine.dev HoneyBook announced it acquired the founding team of Fine.dev, a startup specializing in AI-assisted coding and rapid application development. |