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Europe’s five biggest mobile operators – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM, and Vodafone Group – are building a pan-European “federated edge continuum”, stitching together their national edge assets into a …

Europe’s digital sovereignty ambitions extend beyond cloud and data policy into the nuts and bolts of Industry 4.0 network orchestration. Through initiatives like IPCEI-CIS and 8RA, organisations including Adeptic Reply …

MNOs are moving beyond traditional circuit transport to offer managed overlays and consumption-based models. As the lines blur between MPLS, SD-WAN, MPN, and NaaS, the question for enterprises and MNOs …

Beyond high-profile global consumer and consumer-enterprise disruptions, the AWS and Vodafone outages this month show how Industry 4.0 can fail without proper cloud and network redundancy. Fallible cloud – even …

Some kind of “niche-within-a-niche” reality emerged at The Things Conference in Amsterdam this week – about an IoT opportunity that is fragmented but also promising, and within reach. Growth within …

McDonald’s is digitizing operations with Google Cloud through AI, IoT, and cloud platforms, enhancing restaurant efficiency, streamlining corporate systems, and boosting customer engagement with loyalty rewards and reduced wait times. …

NXP has acquired Port GmbH to integrate industrial protocol software into its processors – as the Dutch firm seeks to assert control over the most critical point in the industrial …

Telcos face both a challenge and an opportunity in handling the unique traffic patterns and demands of AI-generated content, especially at the network edge. In sum – what to know: …

Telcos are seizing the AI moment by transforming old infrastructure into edge assets and positioning themselves as critical players in the AI value chain. In sum – what to know: …

The industrial AI market in global manufacturing will be worth $103.3bn by 2032, a 20-times jump on 2023 – led by AI software platforms, computer vision, and APAC auto-makers. In …

Hyperscale operators dominate global data centre growth as on-premise facilities shrink by comparison. Cloud, AI, and regional dynamics are driving the shift, reshaping how and where data infrastructure scales worldwide. …

The telecom industry is evolving, embracing hyper-automation, AI, and cloud-native technologies to unlock new monetization opportunities. Networks are becoming more complex. Operators must manage fragmented workloads across multi-cloud environments, optimize …

In sum – what you need to know: AI chip for edge devices – NTT enables real-time 4K video processing in drones at altitudes up to 150 meters, five times …

In sum – what you need to know: US-made AI infrastructure – Nvidia has commissioned one million square feet of new production space at factories belonging to Taiwanese trio TSMC, …

In sum – what you need to know AI for internal telco efficiencies – AI is being used so successfully in customer care and network maintenance that service agents are …

Alert | For more about AI in telecoms from Verizon Business, don’t miss the RCR webinar on April 8 – with panellists also from ABI Research, Red Hat, Spirent Communications, …

Qualcomm Technologies has signed a deal to acquire US-based Edge Impulse, which makes miniaturised machine learning (ML) tools for microcontrollers (MCUs) in resource-constrained IoT modules. It is the latest move …

UK-headquartered chip design company Arm has extended its version-nine (Armv9) architecture to the far edge to handle AI workloads directly on IoT devices of various types, including vehicles, cameras, machines, …

Ireland-based private 5G specialist Druid Software has released a high-end version of its 5G core network for distributed private 5G deployments at the enterprise and network edge – in order …

NXP Semiconductors has agreed a deal to buy US edge AI chipmaker Kinara for $307 million. Kinara specialises in energy-efficient neural processing units (NPUs). NXP said it will combine the …

Ericsson is supplying private 5G and edge routers to the international SailGP grand-prix series of high-performance F50 catamaran races around the world. Its Cradlepoint routers will be installed in the …

Cellular IoT is evolving rapidly, driven by three distinct trends: the growing demand for actionable data, advancements in edge processing, and the long-anticipated shift from 4G to 5G NR. These …