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Africa Regional ISP
WIOCC signs $300m investment deal
AFC and Vision Invest have agreed to invest $300m in WIOCC Group to support data-centre, terrestrial fibre and subsea expansion across Africa.
Story
APNIC’s Automation Workshop Has a Second Job: Teaching Its Successors
The Mumbai course is meant to prepare engineers to teach and rebuild their own training labs. That makes it part of a practical handoff before network automation leaves APNIC’s instructor-led curriculum at the end of 2026.
IETF
The IETF Trust Has a Final Chair. Its Exit Still Needs an End-State Record.
A transition can be described truthfully and still be incomplete as a public record. A named final chair tells readers who is carrying a residual office. An asset-transfer announcement tells them that an important legal step happened. Neither statement, by itself, tells them…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Green Mountain signs 14MW London neocloud customer
Green Mountain has signed an unnamed neocloud customer for the newly delivered 14MW expansion at its LON-East campus in Romford.
CASE FILE
The Token Arrived Before the Call. Verification Still Had to Wait: RFC 9888
The signed identity token reached the destination service first. The telephone call was still crossing a path that could not carry that token with it. RFC 9888 makes this split useful for legacy networks, but it also leaves an operational obligation: two arrivals on two channels…
North America Cloud Services Trends
NetSPI–Synack Deal Puts the Service Catalogue in Focus
A broader security-testing portfolio could make purchasing easier. Federal customers will still need to know which service, in which environment, they are being offered.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Shunkai quantum computer starts operation
Japan's Shunkai system is operating with an initial configuration of about 50 qubits as researchers begin work on stability, external access and larger-scale operation.
Story
Inside AFRINIC’s June Reserve Total
AFRINIC’s June financial report puts a reserve balance and an interest estimate on the same page. Reading the distinction properly changes what its $6.6 million total can tell members about growth, cash and the year ahead.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
North Media buys BEAM grid-balancing platform for DKK 9m
North Media has acquired BEAM, a software platform designed to aggregate distributed energy assets for Denmark's grid-balancing market.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Aize’s Samp Deal Opens a Door to Older Plants
Area-based software subscriptions can bring more people into a digital twin. Keeping the plant’s representation current still needs an owner.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Neo Space Group and Arabsat sign satellite services MoU
Neo Space Group and Arabsat will explore satellite communications, geospatial services and other space technologies across the Gulf and Middle East.
North America Datacenter Trends
Nscale closes $3bn financing for two US AI sites
Nscale will use the facilities to fund GPU systems and supporting infrastructure at its Ward County and Madison AI sites.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Powerlink awards 20km Queensland transmission contract
Powerlink has awarded CPP a contract covering 20km of transmission line, Calliope River substation upgrades and a 500MVA transformer.
CASE FILE
The Secure Channel Failed. The Client Was Not Allowed to Fall Back: RFC 9887
RFC 9887 turns a secure-transport upgrade into a rule about authority: when the protected TACACS+ path fails, reachability of the older path does not authorize the client to use it.
North America Cloud Services Trends
C3 AI’s Cash Rebound Has an Equity-Exercise Engine
The software company has returned to positive operating cash flow. Most of the increase in its financial reserves came from a different source.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
C-DOT unveils 14 quantum-security products
C-DOT has unveiled 14 QKD and post-quantum products for communications networks, moving its quantum-security work into named hardware and software systems.
North America Datacenter Trends
California judge tentatively orders 330MW data-centre review
The tentative ruling would put a project-level environmental review ahead of grading and construction for IVCM's proposed Imperial County campus.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
SoftBank completes Japan HAPS trial ahead of 2027 service
The trial connected ordinary smartphones through a high-altitude platform over Japan as SoftBank works towards commercial HAPS services from 2027 onward.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Maxis to fibre 151 Melaka telecom towers
Maxis will fibre-connect 151 MICTH towers in Melaka under a RM30 million programme replacing microwave backhaul.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Orange acquires Obvios's Dome private 5G core
The acquisition brings Dome's private 5G core and its developers into Orange Business for defence and critical-infrastructure deployments.