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• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Wireless Broadband gets on the move for seamless Wi-Fi connectivity

  Wireless Broadband releases its report on wireless connectivity for moving networks, inviting global wireless ecosystem to join its moving network trials

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  AI drives more Ethernet, everywhere

  Study from test and assurance services provider reveals ‘unprecedented’ demand and innovation for what is said to be Ethernet’s biggest transformation in decades

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  Snapdragon Summit 2024: Qualcomm gains mileage with automotive offer

  Qualcomm accelerates automotive offering designed to drive success with leading OEMs such as GM, BMW, Li Auto and Mercedes as cars become new computing space

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Snapdragon Summit 2024: PC, mobile reach AI first inflection point

  Annual conference of leading mobile technology platform sees launch of processors, and mission to set the pace of innovation in PC, mobile, automotive and spatial computing

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Leicestershire Fire and Rescue goes live with emergency response comms

  English Midlands fire service enhances control room communications backbone of emergency response operations, with mobilisation system designed to enhance ability to swiftly and accurately handle emergency calls

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  EXA Infrastructure extends global managed fibre network

  Dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider expands its current reach, launching managed fibre network offering across 31 countries including key strategic Nordic territory

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  Nokia, Centranet trial brings 50G PON to rural Oklahoma tribal nation

  US electrical cooperative claims first in demonstrating a 50Gbps fibre internet connection for a tribal nation, closing digital divide for rural and Indigenous communities

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  Utelogy expands hybrid workforce tech integration with Logitech

  Connected workspaces platform provider expands partnership with leading workplace productivity equipment manufacturer to offer ‘refined’ management of conference room devices

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Nokia, NTT Data expand global private 5G partnership

  Nokia and NTT Data expand multi-year partnership to drive private 5G adoption and innovation across key sectors like cities, ports, and airports, and claim to have transformed Southern Texas city from being the worst-connected conurbation

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  UK ranks last in major economy 5G connectivity league

  Briefing paper from a cross-party think tank offers damming indictment of the UK’s 5G industry, rating the country as bottom of 15 developing and advanced international markets on 5G availability and download speeds

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  HMS Networks boosts ICT standing with Peak-System acquisition

  Industrial information and technology firm takes full shareholding in industrial communication solutions provider with emphasis on expertise within automotive comms

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulnerabilities

  A series of vulnerabilities in DrayTek's Vigor router product lines affects multiple comms service providers in the UK, according to new analysis

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Nokia lights up Beacon Wi-Fi 7 gateway

  Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh gateway designed to deliver speeds over 3x faster than previous generation of Wi-Fi supports the growing number of compatible devices and multi-gigabit services in connected home

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  CityFibre extends Project Gigabit, Sky Broadband eases full-fibre switching

  UK gigabit providers continue to drive gigabit, with leading independent provider adding to national £5bn broadband scheme while major provider launches dedicated 24/7 switching support service

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  EXA Infrastructure, Macarne partner for network growth into Europe

  Dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider connecting Europe and North America announces partnership with advanced infrastructure solutions and IP Transit specialist for six transatlantic routes and 155,000km

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Nokia Bell Labs and e& forge AI use case R&D collaboration

  Renowned comms research facility teams with leading MENA telecoms operator to innovate for strategic industrial sectors, developing artificial intelligence-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  Project Gigabit extends into Yorkshire

  Latest stage of UK government’s £5bn gigabit broadband delivery programme sees advanced connectivity made availed to hitherto unserved rural communities in north of England

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  Comms giants unite to deliver more energy-efficient fibre networks

  Broadband Forum-led project including BT Group, Orange, Calix, Futurewei, Huawei and Nokia seeks to lower energy consumption when accessing the internet through more energy-efficient networks

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  Sipartech ups infrastructure resilience, quality through submarine net

  Mediterranean submarine cable by Medloop France and GeoMesh Extreme service strengthen pan-European terrestrial and undersea infrastructure for enterprises

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  HPE enriches AI capabilities of Aruba Networking Central

  Leading networking provider sees growth of customer base and data lake accelerate AI insights and improved network management, security, performance and visibility

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Huawei: ‘6 As’ to pave the way for ‘all intelligence’ era

  Comms tech giant unveils blueprint for AI-driven future improving smart enterprises, including adaptive user experiences and closed-loop autonomous operations for all business flows

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  LG, Ricoh team up to bolster hybrid working digital transformation

  LG and Ricoh to offer package of digital office solutions and services designed to boost productivity and deliver better user experiences

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  Telstra claims comms record for speed, distances over single optical channel

  Australia-based global operator teams with optical tech company and global comms provider to achieve 1.6Tbps throughput over a single optical channel covering 700km

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  HPE sharpens edge computing with ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server

  Server engineered for diverse edge locations is said to ensure high performance for environments that generate demanding workloads such as in stores, clinics, banks and factory lines

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Third of enterprises to automate majority of network activities by 2026

  Research shows infrastructure and operations leaders increasingly looking to AI-based analytics and augmented decision-making to improve operational resilience and responsiveness

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Nokia unveils automation to reduce datacentre network disruptions

  Global comms tech provider intros what it claims to be the industry’s most modern datacentre automation platform, bringing an intent-based approach to network automation

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  European FTTP adoption rates and market value track upward

  Research finds continued large range in degree of fibre connectivity adoption in leading European economies but finds optimism in growing average adoption rates and fibre broadband revenue models

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  CoreWeave taps Nokia to power AI networking backbone

  AI hyperscaler to deploy IP routing and optical transport portfolios as part of backbone build-out, with immediate roll-out across its datacentres in US and Europe

• September 16, 2024 16 Sep'24

  Slow, unreliable workplace broadband holds back London SMEs

  Research from full-fibre broadband provider warns that small businesses in UK capital could be missing out on an estimated £28bn in annual revenue due to slow and unreliable workplace connectivity

• September 06, 2024 06 Sep'24

  EE ups UK wireless ante with 5G standalone network, Wi-Fi 7 router

  UK’s largest mobile telco announces next evolution of its wireless offerings, with 5GSA across 15 major UK cities

• September 06, 2024 06 Sep'24

  AT&T taps Nokia to accelerate future-ready fibre broadband

  Leading US service provider inks multi-year agreement with global comms tech company to support future footprint expansion

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  IFA 2024: Latest Snapdragon X Series to ‘redefine’ enterprise computing

  Global mobile processor and platform provider takes wraps off next generation of flagship product’s X Series portfolio with the addition of platform claimed to bring ‘incredible’ battery life, superior performance and CoPilot+ PC capability

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  MachineQ unveils IoT power monitoring

  Demand from current and prospective customers seeking ways to understand power consumption and obtain executable data sees introduction of internet of things service

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Arelion claims optical transmission first

  Optical transmission services and technology providers announce the successful completion of project leading to the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second wavelengths data transmission in a live network field trial

• September 02, 2024 02 Sep'24

  Grüner Veltliner winegrowers gain ultra-fast fibre connectivity

  Wine-growing regions of Lower Austria connected with 800km of fibre internet enabling 10 gigabit connectivity for residents in rural region, less than a year into project deployment

• September 02, 2024 02 Sep'24

  Ogi secures £45m funding to support next stages of fibre growth

  Leading Welsh altnet secures major financial package to support next stages of growth in gigabit network spanning domestic territory and the South Wales trunk road into England

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Chunghwa Telecom and NTT activate world’s first International IOWN APN

  IT and comms giant activates international photonic network between Taiwan and Japan in latest stage of Innovative Optical and Wireless Network project

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Swansea Bay City Deal to build a dedicated dark fibre network

  Partnership between Virgin Media O2 Business and South Wales infrastructure project to build dark fibre infrastructure will help connect public sector sites with significantly improved capacity and speed

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Community Fibre, Virgin Media mark full-fibre milestones

  Leading London-based altnet reveals strong customer growth over the past 12 months with 300,000 customers switching to 100% full-fibre broadband across the capital

• August 26, 2024 26 Aug'24

  BT Group and Edgio unveil first MAUD-enabled content delivery network

  Edge network provider becomes first to offer content delivery network enabled by multicast-assisted unicast delivery technology, offering enhanced network performance and ability to deal with increased network traffic loads

• August 22, 2024 22 Aug'24

  Illwerke vkw to deploy business optical transport solution across Austria

  Austrian energy service provider evolving existing network to meet rapidly growing capacity demand and offer 10G, 25G and 100G mobile backhaul and fronthaul services

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  NTT advances all-photonic infrastructure with optical network digital twins

  Comms and IT giant claims major step towards the realisation of full optical network digital twins, with successful end-to-end measurement of signal power across optical fibre transmission lines

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  Sky to offer broadband services over CityFibre full-fibre network

  UK’s largest independent broadband provider gains major coup with leading ISP to run gigabit services on full-fibre infrastructure that aims to reach eight million premises in coming years

• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  Government furthers calls to prevent ‘unnecessary’ telegraph pole installation

  UK administration continues battle to stop what is regarded as unnecessary infrastructure to address need to hit gigabit connectivity commitments

• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  Wessex Internet furthers reach through Project Gigabit

  As broadband roll-out speeds up across the country, west of England altnet goes live with gigabit connectivity in underserved communities, teaming up with arts education charity to offer ultrafast connectivity

• August 16, 2024 16 Aug'24

  Openreach unveils symmetric ultrafast FTTP broadband offer

  UK’s leading broadband provider looks to push capabilities of its network to diversify portfolio further, and offer comms providers and users a broader choice of competitive fibre-based products

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Major players ‘less than impressive’ as altnets rise in UK broadband

  A range of surveys identify independent sector as the driving force in UK’s growing gigabit broadband industry and caution of slowdown in subscribers by major providers

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  BT Group sees share spike as Bharti buys out Altice holding

  Just a few months after Mexican business magnate takes 3.2% stake in UK’s leading telco, Indian multinational conglomerate to buy 24.5% holding in a deal valued at £3.2bn

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  Openreach to light up 312,000 rural UK premises in Project Gigabit next phase

  UK’s leading broadband provider engaged in latest step of £5bn gigabit access programme to improve broadband for more than 300,000 homes and business across UK

• August 09, 2024 09 Aug'24

  UK altnets’ fibre optic overbuild risking rural connectivity

  Report suggests UK’s independent broadband providers are at risk of more unnecessary overbuild as new entrants rush to deploy infrastructure without considering the long-term sustainability of their business models