{"slug": "comcast-business-corrals-colt-for-cross-border-naas-development", "title": "Comcast Business corrals Colt for cross-border NaaS development", "summary": "Comcast Business and Colt Technology will collaborate through Comcast's Innovation Lab to develop API-driven interoperability across their networks, enabling automated cross-border connectivity for multinational enterprises. The integration will connect Comcast's digital orchestration platform with Colt's international network and use agentic AI to automate discovery, ordering, and fulfillment, building on Mplify's LSO standards. This is the first Innovation Lab project with an international carrier, aiming to reduce friction in global network procurement and management.", "body_md": "Comcast Business and Colt Technology will work through the former’s recently instantiated Innovation Lab environment on developing API-driven interoperability across their networks and service platforms.\n\nThe integration will connect Comcast Business’ digital orchestration platform that exposes network capabilities as “programmable, standards-based services” with Colt’s international network. It will also tap agentic AI systems to help discover, order, and fulfill connectivity “through governed automation.”\n\nThe work will build on industry group Mplify’s [life cycle service orchestration (LSO) standards](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/mplify-expands-network-api-certification-to-streamline-naas-adoption/) designed to help automate the provisioning of network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings and underpin a repeatable model for instantiating cross-border connectivity. That work is specifically highlighted as Comcast Business’ effort with Colt is the first to be conducted with an international carrier through the Innovation Lab setting.\n\nThe firms noted the work will include validation through live enterprise systems and is “scoped around a challenge multinational enterprises are navigating right now: how to procure, provision, and manage connectivity across multiple carriers and continents without the friction that has traditionally made cross-border network operations slow, manual, and expensive.”\n\n“Our vision is simple: global connectivity should be easy. Customers shouldn’t see the boundaries between networks or carriers, they should simply get the connectivity they need, wherever they do business,” Colt VP Miriko Voltolini noted in a statement. “By linking our platforms through open, standards-based APIs, Colt and Comcast Business are removing complexity, streamlining procurement and service management, and creating an ‘easy button’ for global connectivity. The result is a faster, simpler, and more seamless experience for enterprises.”\n\nComcast Business [unveiled its Innovation Lab earlier this year](https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-business-unveils-innovation-lab-partnering-with-global-technology-leaders-to-scale-next-gen-enterprise-solutions) with a focus on providing a dedicated environment to develop, test, and scale enterprise-focused services. Initial partners included Dell Technologies, Digital Reality, and Expediant.\n\n\"How enterprises build and operate their networks has become one of the most consequential technology decisions a company makes, and our job is to make that radically simpler,\" Comcast Business Chief Product Officer Bob Victor noted in a statement tied to the Colt deal. \"That’s what the Innovation Lab is for – proving, with partners like Colt and against real enterprise requirements, that connectivity can move at the speed of the AI-driven business it supports.\"", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/comcast-business-corrals-colt-for-cross-border-naas-development", "canonical_source": "https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/comcast-business-corrals-colt-for-cross-border-naas-development/", "published_at": "2026-08-11 14:24:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 14:39:27.771069+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Comcast Business", "Colt Technology", "Mplify", "Dell Technologies", "Digital Reality", "Expediant", "Miriko Voltolini", "Bob Victor"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/comcast-business-corrals-colt-for-cross-border-naas-development", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/comcast-business-corrals-colt-for-cross-border-naas-development.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/comcast-business-corrals-colt-for-cross-border-naas-development.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/comcast-business-corrals-colt-for-cross-border-naas-development.jsonld"}}