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Data centre networking

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era

  Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  CSC, Surf and Nokia achieve 1.2 Tbps data transfer in supercomputer trial

  Trial designed to help research networks prep for high-performance computing clusters and AI factories handling high-intensity workloads, confirming feasibility of multi-domain, high-capacity data transfers across multiple domains

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  HPE Aruba Networking expands distributed services switch platform

  Leading network tech and services provider extends offer with distributed services switches, and expanded wired and wireless portfolio, to meet increasing AI and high-performance computing demands

• May 26, 2025 26 May'25

  Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future

  With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands

  As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI

• May 05, 2025 05 May'25

  How AsiaPac transformed into a multicloud powerhouse

  AsiaPac CEO Andrew Cheng outlines the company’s growth from a laptop PC distributor to a regional technology service provider known for its multicloud capabilities

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  Juniper doubles down on AI as HPE deal faces scrutiny

  Juniper’s ANZ chief highlights strong enterprise adoption of the Mist networking platform, with AI-powered automation delivering cost savings and operational benefits for customers

• April 25, 2025 25 Apr'25

  How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design

  At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure

• April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

  Qwilt covers more than 2,000 edge cloud nodes across six continents

  Distributed edge network technology provider claims milestone in Edge Cloud infrastructure through shift in how enterprises can deliver content and deploy latency-sensitive applications

• April 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

  Nokia networking backbone firms up ResetData AI factory

  Deployment of networking backbone to support immediate roll-out of Australia’s first sovereign and sustainable liquid immersion-cooled data centres looks to gain 75% reduction in energy consumption over previous generations

• April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

  Google Cloud, Juniper Networks accelerate enterprise campus deployment

  AI-native networking platform to use Google’s Cloud WAN service to help accelerate new branch deployments, and offer simplified branch operations with security and agility

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Keysight introduces AI network architecture validation, optimisation tool

  Tool designed to validate the network performance of AI workloads and system infrastructure by adjusting and optimising parameters

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchanges in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro

  DE-CIX opens two internet exchanges, partnering with datacentre operators Equinix, Elea and Ascenty to boost enterprise connectivity, and connect to 60 locations and over datacentres in 600 cities

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture

  New joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  Hetzner enhances datacentre core network infrastructure

  Hosting company taps tech provider to futureproof datacentre and core network infrastructure to support growing digital demands with architecture supporting 400G and 800G interconnectivity

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  Microsoft, DE-CIX plot MAPS for SaaS enterprise connectivity

  Noting that 82% of enterprises underestimate the lagging effect of packet loss on the performance of SaaS applications, global internet exchange operator and IT behemoth partner to optimise cloud connectivity

• March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

  YouFibre takes 400G connectivity option at Manchester internet exchange

  Independent full-fibre broadband provider becomes first ISP to take a 400G port at the London Internet Exchange’s regional interconnection hub in Manchester

• March 02, 2025 02 Mar'25

  AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts

  Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope

  While there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use

  Businesses globally are spending more on emerging technologies year-on-year, but struggle to expand experimental use cases, finds EY’s sixth annual Reimagining Industry Futures study

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace

  At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space

  CGI is building on its decade-long relationship with the European Space Agency, and as more and more satellites entering orbit, its role in processing data is not set to diminish

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  E&, DE-CIX create Middle East SmartHub internet exchange

  Middle East telco partners with internet exchange operator to boost regional datacentre connectivity, with Fujairah hosting largest submarine cable landing station and new locations for Dubai

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  AI readiness stalls in APAC

  Despite significant investment in AI, only 15% of organisations in Asia-Pacific are ready to deploy the technology today, according to Cisco’s latest regional AI readiness survey

• November 08, 2024 08 Nov'24

  IOWN furthers pace of next-gen optical net development

  Next-gen networking project reveals proof of concepts encompassing transforming infrastructure through innovations centred on an APN, spatial experiences with communication technologies, real-time, long-distance connectivity in manufacturing and ...

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  How AI is impacting global connectivity

  Jürgen Hatheier, international CTO of Ciena, discusses the role of connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence and how the company is helping service providers navigate this transformative period

• October 25, 2024 25 Oct'24

  How Infoblox is tackling multicloud complexity and boosting security

  Infoblox CEO Scott Harrell discusses the company’s new Universal DDI service designed to address the growing challenges of managing network security in hybrid IT environments

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Foxconn and Nvidia to build Taiwan’s fastest supercomputer

  The supercomputer, powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, will drive breakthroughs in cancer research, large language models and smart city initiatives

• August 07, 2024 07 Aug'24

  Rocketing AI demand sees Lumen light up custom networks division

  Connectivity provider shakes up corporate structure in response to artificial intelligence economy changing business operations and companies recognising need for powerful network to manage unprecedented data flows and demand

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  HPE Discover 2024: HPE, Nvidia team to accelerate GenAI revolution

  Partnership on product and sales channels to feature what is described as first-of-its-kind turnkey, private-cloud AI service including sustainable accelerated computing with full lifecycle services to streamline time to value with AI

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Nvidia sees massive datacentre compute growth, says networking is next

  After posting revenues of $19.4bn in its datacentre business, Nvidia is now looking to revolutionise ethernet interconnects

• May 24, 2024 24 May'24

  AI set to improve network operational efficiency by 40% or more

  Study of telecom and IT engineers exploring artificial intelligence’s impact on the network sees almost universal belief in need to upgrade fibre-optic networks to support more AI traffic

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Virgin Media Business Wholesale connects MA5 datacentre with new fibre

  Virgin Media Business Wholesale marks next phase of ongoing high bandwidth upgrade programme, setting out to deliver faster and more accurate provisioning at strategic sites throughout the UK

• March 25, 2024 25 Mar'24

  IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition

  Tech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  Singtel to host Vultr’s GPU workloads in AI datacentres

  Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region hosted in Singtel’s AI datacentres by the third quarter this year

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  Digital experience becomes new boardroom metric

  Networking technology and services giant outlines new paradigm in experience economy, where next generation of chief digital officers demand unified understanding of every component of networked applications

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Juniper claims first AI-native networking platform

  AIOps and virtual network assistant expanded with first integrated digital experience twinning and end-to-end insight across campus, branch and data centre infrastructures to drive more speed, scale and value

• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  Digital Realty opens datacentre in Chennai

  Datacentre developed through joint venture will support high-density power requirements and tap Jio’s connectivity infrastructure across India

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  HPE nabs Juniper Networks in $14bn deal to boost networking

  The two companies position the combined business as a major force in enterprise and datacentre networking

• January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

  Inside the Met Police’s investigation into EncroChat crime gangs

  The Met’s senior investigating officer responsible for investigating criminals using the EncroChat encrypted phone network tells the inside story of the UK’s biggest organised crime bust in a BBC podcast series released this week

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journey

  The Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS

• November 24, 2023 24 Nov'23

  APAC organisations warm to microsegmentation

  Nearly two-thirds of organisations in the APAC region see microsegmentation as a way to protect their IT assets, but lack the skills to deploy the technology

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  Verizon advances fibre technology for increased speed, reliability and capacity

  Increasing its bet on fibre not only in the fixed domain but also as backhaul for wireless networks, communications provider reveals trial showing 1.2Tbps transport of data across a single wavelength on its live metro network

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  Neos Networks expands fibre net with London, Manchester datacentre estates

  UK connectivity provider brings Telehouse South and Equinix MA5 on-net to its commercial datacentre, offering reliable, resilient and secure connectivity to UK financial services hub

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  BT stitches multi-cloud with Global Fabric

  UK’s leading telco unveils network-as-a-service offering designed to enable customers to boost cost, security and sustainability while optimising application performance and user experience

• October 17, 2023 17 Oct'23

  Ogi, brsk further UK altnet charge

  Independent providers cover south of Wales and northwest of England, celebrate full-fibre deployment milestones

• October 10, 2023 10 Oct'23

  Singtel NaaS offering to ease hybrid network management

  Singtel CUBΣ is touted to make it easier for enterprises to manage, scale and automate deployment of networking resources in a hybrid network environment

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave

  The technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  New revelations from the Snowden archive surface

  A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1% of the documents have been published – but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by ...

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  How Maxeon is forging the path to SASE

  Maxeon Solar Technologies is building out its security service edge capabilities with an eye on a SASE implementation that combines best of breed offerings from different suppliers