Reality is the real AI networking bottleneck
A panel at this week's Xcelerated Compute event in London agreed that physical reality — fiber buildout, equipment manufacturability and planning timelines — is the main bottleneck for AI networking, …
A panel at this week's Xcelerated Compute event in London agreed that physical reality — fiber buildout, equipment manufacturability and planning timelines — is the main bottleneck for AI networking, …
Josh Boxer left Google after nearly 11 years to become networking sourcing manager at neocloud provider Fluidstack, he confirmed via LinkedIn. Boxer joined Google in 2015 as a program manager for data…
Telxius, the Telefónica-owned subsea cable business, is deploying Nokia's 800 Gb/s ICE-X coherent pluggable optics across its terrestrial infrastructure in Europe, the U.S., and Latin America to suppo…
Panelists at the Xcelerated Compute event in London said the United Kingdom lacks sovereign control over its AI compute, with Era4 chief commercial officer Karl Harvard noting that over two-thirds of …
Nokia launched Cognitive Operations (CO), a platform combining unified edge computing, mission-critical communications, and agentic AI tooling for construction, public safety, mining, and defense mark…
Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Check Point were the only three vendors named leaders in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for hybrid mesh firewalls, with Fortinet placed highest in the leaders category for …
Cisco expanded Splunk Agent Observability with tokenomics tracking across Splunk Observability Cloud and Cisco Cloud Control, letting enterprises monitor AI token usage, costs, and productivity by tea…
Astera Labs unveiled the next generation of its Leo Compute Express Link (CXL) smart memory controllers, adding a high-end X-Series for offloading key-value cache in agentic AI inference plus second-g…
Cornelis raised $205 million and is expanding into the scale-up networking market with its Active Compute Fabric, which adds programmable compute to the network to improve AI accelerator utilization b…
Verizon expanded its 6G Innovation Forum with nine new members — Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, Intel, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Keysight Technologies, MediaTek, Rohde & Schwarz, and Viavi Solutions — …
NTT DoCoMo deployed Nokia base station equipment at the Joso Kinugawa Fireworks Festival in Japan, calling it a world-first multivendor open radio access network (O-RAN) deployment. The installation u…
Cisco expanded its Splunk partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Nvidia at its Splunk-focused Conf. event, launching Cisco AI Pod for Splunk to run Splunk AI workloads on on-premises Nvidia acceler…
Verizon and Samsung tested an AI-powered integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology at an international soccer fan event in Dallas, using a sensing receiver supporting 40 megahertz of CBRS…
SDxCentral Magazine's Issue #2 reports that 7-Eleven operates more than 7,300 stores in Taiwan, the highest density of 7-Elevens anywhere in the world, all running on a single Chunghwa Telecom-service…
Cisco principal architect Bruce McDougall built an open-source software emulator for Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), the OpenAI-developed transport protocol for large-scale AI training networks, …
Atsign and Intel reported an approximately 8,700% performance improvement for hardware-accelerated, end-to-end encrypted agent communications using the Agent2Agent (A2A) standard, achieved by combinin…
Nokia and Orange France completed a live optical network tomography trial using algorithms from Nokia Bell Labs, which Nokia said can pinpoint physical fiber wear, failing amplifiers, and bad configur…
Extreme Networks launched Extreme Agent One Coworker, an agentic AI solution in its Extreme Platform One suite that the company claims resolves networking issues up to 15-times faster using real-time …
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent Nvidia a formal request for information about its Groq deal, opening an antitrust investigation after the transaction was disclosed in late December, The New Yo…
Zayo introduced Agentic Networking for DynamicLink, an AI agent service that embeds agents into networking workflows to automate tasks such as cloud-to-cloud connectivity and network performance inves…