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Ookla: AI platform reliability decreases as outages surge
So you thought “AI Hallucinations” were the only big problem with AI performance? Think again! In a new Ookla reliability report, data from its Downdetector reveals that AI platform outages surged from 6 high-disruption days in Q1 2025 to 51 in Q1 2026 , as AI tools transitioned from novelties to critical business infrastructure. These… Read more
Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Tutorial: Architecture, Spectrum, and Technical Foundations
by Paresh Panchal, Principal Engineer – Charter Communications Abstract: Several Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) related articles have appeared on the IEEE ComSoc Techblog over the past year. They include: Alan J Weissberger’s market overview (December 2025), the Keysight/Samsung frequency band n252 demonstration (January 2026), the Telecoms.com survey summary (July 2025), and the enterprise IoT hybrid-network article… Read more
Amazon and Corning in Multi-Billion-Dollar Fiber Infrastructure Deal in North Carolina
Introduction: The surge in optical fiber demand is intensifying as hyperscale cloud providers accelerate infrastructure buildouts to support AI-driven workloads and high-density data center interconnect (DCI). Corning [1.] today announced a multi‑billion‑dollar investment from Amazon to expand fiber manufacturing capacity in North Carolina—incremental to its previously announced $10 billion regional cloud infrastructure expansion—reflects a broader… Read more
Cisco Execs: New “Network Supercycle” as Agentic AI Workloads Reshape Telecom Infrastructure
By Alan J Weissberger Executive Summary: The rapid rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to drive material changes across data centers, service provider networks, and the broader telecom ecosystem. As agentic AI moves from chat-oriented interactions to autonomous digital agents, Cisco says that those workloads will not only increase traffic volumes, but also… Read more
Hyperscalers Dominance of Subsea Cable Capacity to Increase in the AI Era
Hyperscalers (AWS, Google, Microsoft, Meta/FB) now dominate global subsea cable capacity. Their share of total international bandwidth has surged from negligible levels in 2010 to approximately 75% today. According to data from TeleGeography, hyperscalers are participating in over two-thirds of all planned submarine cable deployments, with Google alone anchoring eight new systems in the Asia-Pacific… Read more
SK Telecom applies digital twins to SK Hynix semiconductor fabs using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries
SK Telecom (SKT) announced today that it has applied digital twins to SK Hynix semiconductor fabs [1.] using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, optimizing the technology for complex, large-scale manufacturing environments. Digital twins recreate actual factories and equipment in virtual environments, enabling companies to simulate and verify the impact of process changes and equipment layout adjustments in… Read more
Hurricane Electric establishes carrier neutral PoP at Lincoln Data Centers, Nebraska
Fremont, CA headquartered Hurricane Electric is a leading Internet backbone [1.] and colocation provider specializing in colocation, dedicated servers, direct Internet connections and web hosting. Hurricane Electric operates its own global network, running multiple OC192s, OC48s and Gigabit Ethernet. The ISP offer the following services: IP Transit [2.]: Wholesale internet connectivity ranging from 100 Mbps… Read more
Analysis: Broadcom’s end-to-end 50G PON Edge AI portfolio with WiFi 8 support
Broadcom has announced the BCM68850, a 50G ITU-T PON home gateway system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates a neural processing unit (NPU) and provides native support for emerging Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) capabilities. The device extends the evolution of broadband access silicon toward higher-capacity passive optical network (PON) standards while maintaining alignment with next-generation in-home wireless technologies. … Read more
Cisco report: Agentic AI to reshape WAN traffic, AI inference will be ~25% of total traffic by 2035
Executive Summary: Consumer-driven AI traffic [1.] currently represents a marginal share of aggregate Internet traffic. However, accelerating adoption of agentic AI is expected to materially reshape traffic composition over the next decade. In its “AI Impact on Wide Area Networks” report, Cisco projects that AI will emerge as the dominant driver of network traffic growth. As… Read more
Telecom data centers must be redesigned for the AI era with rack scale architectures, enhanced power & cooling requirements
Recent analysis by SiliconANGLE and Morgan Stanley highlights that the bottleneck for generative AI in telecom has shifted from software capabilities to physical hardware availability. While telecom network operators have successfully designed AI models for network optimization, predictive maintenance, and autonomous traffic routing, they lack the raw compute power to run them at scale. Traditional… Read more