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Mike Jack, director of product marketing at Viavi, told RCR that the challenge is not only validating individual links but ensuring interoperability and performance across a rapidly evolving ecosystem of …

In sum – what to know $30B opportunity – PhotonLink could add $30 billion to Coherent’s addressable market by 2030, on top of its existing $60 billion portfolio opportunity. Multiple …

How MIMO continues to evolve for mobile connectivity in the AI era What you should know: Mobile data demand is entering a new phase. Video, XR and cloud services continue …

Ask an engineer why an AI project stalled, and the answer is rarely the AI model. It’s the rift between the model and network. The model has no operational context, …

In sum – what to know O-RAN foundation – Rakuten Mobile says its software-defined, cloud-native architecture provides the foundation for adding AI intelligence to its network. Autonomy with guardrails – …

Orange is preparing to test Nokia’s AI-RAN platform in its live network, putting claimed radio-efficiency gains to the commercial test while exploring the bigger proposition of shared compute for AI …

Mike Jack, director of product marketing at Viavi, told RCR that the most acute testing and assurance challenges are concentrated within data-center fabrics and data-center interconnect, where AI workloads are …

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the defining force behind the next generation of mobile networks. The deployment decisions operators make today will shape their ability to adopt new AI capabilities, …

Troy Lupe, chief network officer at Zayo told RCR that the recently announced expanded strategic supply agreement with Corning secures a significant portion of the fiber optic cable it expects …

The firm’s chief commercial officer said that Crown Castle’s long-term customer contracts provide visibility into future activity, while spectrum acquisitions and auctions could provide additional support In sum – what …

From the newsletter (September 15; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): AI safety warnings may be genuine, but they arrive alongside mounting questions about AI economics. As frontier …

More than one in three people worldwide remains offline despite living within mobile broadband coverage, highlighting a shift in the digital divide from network availability to people’s ability to use …

Tim Donovan, president and CEO of the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA), told RCR that rural carriers may be able to monetize existing land, fiber, and power assets through modular, edge-based …

Steven Vondran, president and CEO of American Tower, said that the current phase of network deployment is increasingly focused on capacity rather than coverage In sum – what to know: …

Rob Shore, head of optical networks solution marketing at Nokia Network Infrastructure, said AI is generating significantly more bandwidth demand between locations, including data centers, regions, and cloud environments In …

Connectivity, not just compute, will determine AI’s infrastructure future, argues former AT&T president Glenn Lurie. Drawing on the iPhone’s launch, he says operators, hyperscalers and technology companies must build together …

New executive appointments by Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US – plus Nokia and Orange as recent examples – show how the telecoms, tech, and industrial sectors are converging as a …

AI is triggering a multiyear re-architecture of network infrastructure, says Ciena, driving higher bandwidth demand and making optical connectivity increasingly critical from long-haul networks to data center fabrics, with its …

Noah Taylor, of AFL, told RCR that the combination of fiber availability and power constraints presents a further challenge for AI infrastructure deployment. In sum – what to know: Traffic …

Meeting the demands of the AI and autonomous networks era Executive SummaryThis solution profile of Ericsson Adaptive Inventory (EAI) updates Appledore’s 2023 profile. Over the past three years, the role …

Dispatch deploys AI agents to handle quoting and implementation work In sum – what we know: Lightyear has launched Dispatch, an AI platform the company bills as the first “agentic” system …

ZTE said its position in China’s network equipment market remained stable, while computing-related opportunities linked to the construction of intelligent computing resource pools provided an additional source of growth In …

AI workloads are reshaping data centers and cloud networks, driving unprecedented demands on scale, performance, and resiliency. Scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across connectivity models are redefining how GPUs, racks, and data …

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“The next billion dollar growth engine for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) is the digitalization of mission critical verticals, and a modern OSS and BSS solution is the key to unlock …