Network Infrastructure

Ericsson has emerged as “the primary RAN partner” to Virgin Media O2 in the UK, expanding its footprint in a major national 5G SA upgrade project that appears to come …

Blue Origin’s push into orbital data centers is about “staking a claim than demonstrating parity with Starlink”, says analyst firm Blue Origin, the US aerospace manufacturer and space-flight services outfit …

HPE reinforced the telco shift at MWC: the urgent mid-gen upgrade of fiber interconnect and longhaul networks for the AI era, plus the edge inference agenda just coming on-stream – …

Gateways are increasingly being architected as integrated edge platforms that combine high-performance wireless connectivity with on-device compute and AI capabilities Wi-Fi networks are evolving to support more intelligent and latency-sensitive …

Inwit, Italy’s largest tower company with more than 25,000 telecom towers, is seeing an exodus of Italian mobile operators. In sum – what to know: Dual exit plans – Fastweb …

AI connectivity has a new currency. It’s coherent pluggable optics “We’re really now in a pluggable coherent world,” said Andrew Schmitt, founder and directing analyst at Cignal AI, as he …

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said talks are underway, covering potential collaboration on towers, fiber networks, and spectrum assets In sum – what to know: Sharing talks begin – Vodafone …

Aurora Networks, under rebranded parent Vistance Networks, has upgraded Vodafone’s broadband network in Germany with Remote PHY, DAA, and virtual CMTS technologies – for improved AI-friendly last-mile connectivity. In sum …

A new FCC filing from Blue Origin is heating up competition between the two wealthiest men on Earth In sum — what to know:  Regulatory chess: In what feels like …

John Bonello, director at Vecta Labs, told RCR Wireless News that the pre-assembled mobile masts for UK carrier O2 are designed to scale across different deployment scenarios In sum – …

Coherent optics, photonic line systems, and software agents are helping cloud providers and telco companies to manage the explosive AI workload demands on fiber networks – across cutting-edge interconnect systems, …

Kannan Raj, architect, Oracle pulled back the curtain on the three dimensions of connectivity that define AI-era networking, and how optical innovation is enabling the globe-spanning AI network fabric One …

Post-Infinera integration, the Finnish vendor’s growth target is data center interconnect Nokia’s optical pitch this year at OFC was crystalline, more intentional, and landed somewhere between breakthrough and inevitable.  A …

The trial used Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics over an unregenerated link In sum – what to know: Record distance – 800 Gb/s transmitted over 16,608 km without …

The tower JV between TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone builds on a preliminary RAN sharing agreement signed earlier this year In sum – what to know: 6,000 towers planned – …

Jeff Heynen, VP at Dell’Oro Group, told RCR Wireless that cable infrastructure upgrades will play a central role in the recovery of the broadband access equipment market this year In …

Nvidia’s trillion-dollar AI infrastructure forecast set the tone at GTC yesterday, framing its AI-RAN partnerships with Nokia and T-Mobile (part of a $2tn industry) as a new frontier for low-latency …

At the Autonomous Network Summit during MWC Barcelona 2026, Cyient outlined how autonomy is reshaping network operations for telcos On the opening day of MWC in Barcelona, Cyient brought together …

Global, porgrammable, and dense – from cloud to edge; Verizon Business talked at MWC about how its sees the new AI stack evolving for telcos, and why its investments in …

Ericsson’s networks chief Per Narvinger offered a measured view of AI’s impact on telecoms at MWC: fiber may lead the infrastructure boom today, but AI will also shift through the …

While most of the big talk at MWC is about 5G and 6G, the most urgent AI infrastructure work is with fibre-heavy data centre interconnects. Cisco, and certain others, are …

Partnerships with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and industrial IoT specialist Geoforce show how AT&T is positioning fibre, edge infrastructure, and enterprise connectivity to support AI workloads from data centre to factory …

As fixed wireless access gains fresh momentum worldwide, Mimosa Networks’ unlicensed-spectrum technology is emerging as a strategic complement to fibre and 5G – powering Reliance Jio’s surging AirFiber service and …