Clouds and Carriers

VMware introduced new and enhanced orchestration capabilities for the edge.  VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (formerly VMware SASE Orchestrator) will provide unified management for VMware SASE and the VMware Edge Compute...

New research commissioned by Nokia and conducted by Analysys Mason finds that 87 percent of communications service providers (CSPs) have started to implement AI into their network operations, either as...

GÉANT, the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), will deploy a state-of-the-art IP/MPLS solution from Nokia. As part of its GN5 IP/MPLS routing and switching replacement project,...

Verizon Business designated HCLTech as its primary Managed Network Services (MNS) collaborator in all networking deployments for global enterprise customers. HCL Technologies (HCLTech) is an Indian multinational information technology services...

Project Nephio, an open source initiative of partners across the telecommunications industry working towards true cloud-native automation under the Linux Foundation, announced the availability of its Release 1 (R1).  Nephio...

Cogent Communications has established a PoP in the GTA GNC Data Center.  GTA, the leading telecommunications provider in Guam, operates the territory’s only modern, purpose-built carrier neutral data center with...

Cloudflare reported Q2 venue of $308.5 million, representing an increase of 32% year-over-year. Non-GAAP net income was $33.7 million, compared to $0.3 million in the second quarter of 2022. Non-GAAP...

Microsoft announced general availability of Azure Operator Nexus, a carrier-grade and hybrid platform that enables telecom operators to use cloud technology to modernize and monetize their network investments. AT&T has...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, promising up to 15%  better...

Cisco has acquired Code BGP, a privately held BGP monitoring company based in Greece. Financial terms were not disclosed. Code BGP was founded in 2021 by Fontas Dimitropoulos, Vasileios Kotronis...

 Lumen Technologies launched its flagship capability on its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform, offering customers “radical flexibility in how they buy, use, and manage networking services.” The Lumen NaaS platform offers a...

A new Global Telco AI Alliance backed by SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, e& and Singtel aims to transform the existing telco business and create new business opportunities with AI services....

ZEDEDA, which offers an edge orchestration solution, introduced a suite of Edge Application services providing remote access, inventory and configuration management, and Kubernetes management. The first service in the suite,...