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Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
DOCOMO, PLDT test weather-linked battery control
A two-site Philippine trial raised reported solar utilisation from 38% to 61% by changing how battery capacity is divided between daily use and backup.
North America Datacenter Trends
IREN, Galaxy receive conditional ERCOT classifications
IREN's Sweetwater hub and two Galaxy projects entered ERCOT's Base Load category, while three other Galaxy sites remain subject to capacity allocation.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
HSCALE's Spanish deal has two financial clocks
A long-term cloud customer agreement gives a Spanish campus a commercial anchor before first service in 2027. Its contract value and construction budget cannot be combined into a shortcut to payback.
IETF
The Principal Signed the Delegation. The Issuer Still Bound the Agent Key
Two valid signatures can sit in one credential without answering the same question. A new AIC-JWT revision puts the principal’s authorization inside an issuer-signed token, yet draws a precise line between the Agent identity the principal authorized and the proof-of-possession…
Global Datacenter Trends
Qualcomm ties Amazon warrants to chip purchases
Amazon can acquire up to 25 million Qualcomm shares, with most warrant vesting tied to commercial agreements, binding orders and purchases.
North America National Telecom
Verizon secures six-year Corning fibre supply
Verizon will receive more than 80 million fibre miles from Corning between 2027 and 2032 for broadband and long-haul network construction.
North America Datacenter Trends
Massachusetts makes data-centre commitments count
The new executive order ties state permits to community benefits and environmental conditions. The commercial test is whether a developer can make those promises credible before construction money is committed.
North America Institutional Trends
D-Wave’s 110,000 Qubits Belong on Two Scoreboards
D-Wave has attached two large numbers to a new US research award: a 100,000-qubit annealing system and a 10,000-qubit gate-model system meant to produce 100 logical qubits. The tempting arithmetic is also the wrong analysis. These are different machines, different units and…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Russian ministry says independent MVNOs cannot offer 5G
Independent Russian MVNOs may be excluded from 5G under new spectrum rules, although industry figures dispute whether the restriction amounts to a direct ban.
North America Institutional Trends
USAC moves USF payments to SAM.gov
USAC will use SAM.gov banking records for USF payments, and incomplete registration will trigger payment holds even when invoices are accepted.
Global Cloud Services Trends
ADP's AWS pact links migration, agents and data
The expanded partnership reaches beyond hosting into application modernisation, agent infrastructure and a data foundation. Its significance is the depth of the relationship, not a disclosed new order value.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
China targets PUE below 1.2 for new data centres
The 2030 plan applies the efficiency target to new large and hyperscale computing facilities, with measurement details still undisclosed.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
India joins US-led 6G security initiative
The group will work on common security and interoperability principles before suppliers face detailed 6G specifications or testing requirements.
CASE FILE
Two Sources, One Election, No Continuity Verdict: RFC 9856
RFC 9856 gives an EVPN fabric disciplined ways to choose among redundant multicast sources. The useful discipline begins by refusing a tempting shortcut: the chosen path is not the received service.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
China cloud-native adoption reaches 48%
CNCF and SlashData say adoption rose from 30% in two years, while production AI adds requirements for traffic management and resilience.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
Samsung SDS targets 200 AI field engineers
Samsung SDS plans about 200 customer-facing AI engineers by year-end, ahead of new data-centre capacity due from 2028.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
BIPROGY adds specialists, not a single cloud promise
The Japanese alliance brings cloud-specific expertise closer to enterprise customers. Turning that access into an accountable managed service is a separate commercial task.
CASE FILE
The Parameter Set Verified. The Signing State Did Not: RFC 9858
RFC 9858 gives HSS/LMS implementers more hash and security-strength choices. It does not make the stateful part of a stateful signature disappear. The operational question is therefore not only whether a verifier can parse the new typecodes, but whether the signer can prove that…
IETF
RFC-to-be 10040 Can Sign a Map-Reply. It Cannot Verify the Location
A coordinate can arrive in a reply whose sender and contents are cryptographically authenticated, yet still lack an answer to the most physical question in the exchange: who actually measured the place? RFC-to-be 10040 is nearly through the publication workshop. Its governance…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SGC, Vertiv design power systems for Gunsan AI centre
SGC and Vertiv are designing power and cooling for the first 60MW of a Gunsan AI data centre that could expand to 300MW.