News and BusinessThe Iberian Peninsula has emerged as the world’s first “Distributed Digital Capital” and is poised to become Europe’s next major AI hub, according to a new study by Dstream Group, commissioned by DE-CIX. The region has a unique digital ecosystem ready to serve the demands of AI, with distributed infrastructure interconnecting the strategic hubs of […]
News and BusinessThe optical communications industry is entering a new era, one that is defined scale, efficiency, and intelligence. This shift was front and centre at this year’s ECOC Exhibition in Málaga, where Market Focus Committee Chair Michael Lebby outlined how artificial intelligence is set to transform photonics over the coming decade. Lebby describes today’s moment as […]
News and BusinessAt Network X, the Broadband Forum will showcase how its broadband standards are moving from theory to deployment, powering real-life use cases such as Agentic AI management, AI root cause analysis and self-managing networks. The collaborative and multi-vendor demonstrations will highlight how service providers can convert the smart home into a revenue-driving opportunity. “The Broadband […]
News and BusinessNew research from connectivity provider Neos Networks has revealed a growing tension at the heart of the UK’s AI ambitions: businesses are confident they can scale AI workloads, but network infrastructure is already shaping where and how that growth can happen. New research found that 78% of large enterprises across financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, […]
News and BusinessNokia and Orange have announced a successful live trial of network tomography, which gives service providers near real-time visibility into conditions across a live optical transport network. The trial, which is a is a first of its kind, demonstrates how advanced optical network intelligence can help operators better understand, manage and optimize their transport networks […]
News and BusinessMolex has announced the strategic investment in CAEPlus, Inc., an early-stage company focused on the development of active liquid cooling technology designed to help data centres manage increasing heat loads driven by AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. This investment advances Molex’s Data Centre Thermal Management strategy by accelerating the innovation of CAEPlus’ BoundaryCool™ platform, […]
News and BusinessLumilens, the connectivity platform for AI infrastructure, emerged from stealth, having been founded to solve the growing networking bottlenecks limiting AI scale. In just two years after its founding, the company is commercially shipping its first product into production AI data centres under a multi-billion dollar customer agreement, and announced more than $700 million in […]
Technologies and ProductsAmphenol Network Solutions has launched the PIVOT™ Fibre Distribution Panel designed to help data centres support more connections in the same amount of rack space. As AI and cloud applications grow, data canters need to move more information at faster speeds. That requires significantly more fibre connections, creating new pressure on already limited rack space. […]
Applications and ResearchBusinesses are confident their networks are ready to support the high-performance connectivity needs of AI, but the data tells a different story. According to new research from DE-CIX, a survey conducted this month by Censuswide revealed that while 96% are confident that their networks are ready to support cloud and AI initiatives over the next […]
News and BusinessSemiNex Corporation, a U.S. developer and manufacturer of indium phosphide (InP) photonic devices, has announced a major expansion of its manufacturing operations, tripling its production, automated test and inspection, and cleanroom capacity to support accelerating demand from the artificial intelligence (AI) data centre, high-performance computing, and quantum computing markets. The expansion positions SemiNex to scale […]
News and BusinessFibre builder Brightspeed has announced an expansion of its fibre portfolio with the launch of its 8 Gig speed tier, providing organisations with the network infrastructure needed to support increasingly data-intensive, AI-powered operations. “AI is fundamentally changing how businesses work and it’s changing what businessowners should expect from their network,” said Jeff Lowney, president of […]
Technologies and ProductsAI software developer IQGeo has announced an “industry-first” capability that automatically detects errors in telecom network records during field operations. The new capability marks a foundational step toward the accurate, continuously updated network data that autonomous network operations require, says the company. When engineers build or repair network infrastructure, the physical work rarely matches the […]
News and BusinessWholesale operator FiberCop and Nokia have signed an agreement to test the use of optical fibre as a distributed sensor, capable of detecting climate events, anomalies and potential faults. The collaboration involves joint research and testing activities on solutions that enable fibre not only to transmit data, but also, thanks to artificial intelligence, to detect […]
News and BusinessAMD and Rackspace Technology®, a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, have recently signed a definitive agreement for the phased deployment of an initial 30 MW footprint dedicated to AMD-based compute deployments across Rackspace’s global data centres beginning in late 2026 through 2028. The agreement operationalizes the Memorandum of Understanding announced May 7, 2026, and […]
News and BusinessCoherent Corp. has signed a letter of intent to receive up to $50 million in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act from the U.S. Department of Commerce to expand its world-leading 6-inch Indium Phosphide (InP) semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas. The investment will support growing demand for optical networking technologies that power […]
News and BusinessNokia announced a major expansion of its advanced test and packaging (ATP) operations in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The investment will increase domestic production capacity of the optical networking technologies that power scalable AI infrastructure connectivity across the United States. The expansion is expected to nearly double Nokia’s Pennsylvania workforce to more than 500 jobs in engineering, […]
Applications and ResearchUK workers are adopting AI faster than their US peers but most organisations are still not seeing the business gains AI was expected to deliver, according to new research from the Work AI Institute, a first-of-its-kind research collaborative from enterprise AI leader Glean. The Work AI Index: UK 2026, based on a survey of 6,000 full-time digital […]
Product FocusMarvell Technology, a data infrastructure semiconductor solutions provider, introduced the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps switch silicon purpose-built for the AI era. Marvell Teralynx T100 was architected from the ground up for AI, enabling the industry’s lowest power consumption and lowest latency at this bandwidth tier to address critical bottlenecks in today’s large AI clusters. The T100 […]
News and BusinessAnritsu and YOTASYS are collaborating to deliver advanced AI-enabled spectrum monitoring solutions. Under this collaboration, Anritsu provides the spectrum analyser hardware technology, while YOTASYS acts as system integrator, combining Anritsu’s RF hardware with its own AI, software and GPU-based processing capabilities. The offering combines three YOTASYS technologies: the Y9827A Inceptron Spectrum Analyzer, the Y9220A Agentic […]
News and BusinessNokia launched its AI Networking Innovation Lab, a new centre designed to drive co-innovation with AI and cloud partners and accelerate the development of next-generation networking technologies for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Located within Nokia’s Sunnyvale, California facility, the lab serves as an innovation hub where Nokia will work across advanced AI networking technologies, architectures […]