Search Results for: Open RAN
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
Tutorial: LEO Satellite Internet connectivity, D2D, and major providers
Satellite Orbits: Satellite connectivity operates across three orbital tiers: Geostationary (GEO) satellites have been the dominant platform for decades, powering telecommunications, TV broadcasting, weather forecasting, military surveillance, rural internet, and satellite phones. Positioned 36,000 kilometres above the equator, a single GEO satellite covers nearly a third of the planet, but the distance creates a 500–700… Read more
Inside Nokia’s new AI Networking Innovation Lab
As AI workload demands continuously affect how data center networks must operate, challenges across performance, scale, and precision must be addressed to maintain the large-scale demands on network infrastructure. To address those needs, Nokia announced today the launch of its AI Networking Innovation Lab, a new facility designed to bolster innovation between AI and cloud partners and to accelerate next-generation development of… Read more
2026 Fiber Connect Keynote: “The Future of Fiber Optics: AI and the Quantum”
Dr. Michio Kaku’s 2026 Fiber Connect keynote, “The Future of Fiber Optics: AI and the Quantum,” kicked off the inaugural AI & Emerging Technology Infrastructure Summit on Wednesday, May 20,2026. As a theoretical physicist and futurist, Dr. Kaku delivered a high-altitude roadmap framing fiber optic networks not merely as faster telecom pipes, but as the mandatory… Read more