Time Horizon
Multi-year
Within the Time Horizon facet, Multi-year time-horizon intelligence organises articles by the period over which a signal is expected to matter. The page helps readers distinguish immediate operational changes from longer-cycle governance, investment, standards, and infrastructure shifts that may unfold across quarters or years. It connects timing assumptions with public evidence, related actors, market context, customer exposure, policy pressure, and infrastructure planning so readers can judge whether a development is urgent, strategic, or still waiting on confirming evidence. The page also explains how time horizon changes the meaning of a signal, which organisations may be exposed, and which infrastructure decisions require short-term action or long-cycle monitoring.

Leaders
Vishal Seth
Tracked for participation in global wholesale voice and SMS ecosystems spanning APAC, CIS, Middle East, Africa, and European telecom interconnection markets.

Leaders
Aaron Graves
Tracked for operational visibility into carrier and telco infrastructure strategy, regional network services operations, and telecom modernization ecosystems.

Leaders
Aaron Meadows
Tracked for relevance inside US fiber infrastructure, commercial assurance operations, and enterprise broadband ecosystems.

Leaders
Abubaid Mohamed Irfan
Tracked for relevance inside global carrier interconnection, enterprise connectivity, and managed network infrastructure ecosystems.

Leaders
Adam Elasowich
Tracked for relevance to Equinix interconnection ecosystems, network service provider relationships, AI/HPC infrastructure demand, managed services, virtual infrastructure, and carrier-neutral digital infrastructure markets.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Bosch, Qualcomm deepen ADAS software partnership
Bosch and Qualcomm expanded their strategic collaboration from cockpit computing into ADAS solutions for software-defined vehicles.

History
How Lito Ibarra Connected El Salvador and Shaped Global Governance
Lito Ibarra’s story reveals how the internet was built from scratch and why its governance now struggles at global scale

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Ericsson and Jülich put JUPITER to work on AI for 5G and 6G
Ericsson and Forschungszentrum Jülich plan to use Europe’s JUPITER exascale system to design and test AI for 5G evolution and future 6G networks.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Ericsson and SK Telecom put AI-RAN validation before 6G launch claims
The five-year MoU links AI-RAN, 5G evolution and 6G research, but discloses no trial result, purchase commitment or commercial launch.

People
Geoff Huston
Geoff Huston reflects on how open protocols scaled the internet—and why centralisation and AI now pose systemic risks.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Ericsson and Qualcomm turn 6G lab proof into a commercialization test
Ericsson and Qualcomm's 6G announcement matters because it moves a future-network story from aspiration into prototype evidence. The companies said they had aligned on core 6G radio concepts and validated them in joint lab work, then tied the results to MWC 2026 demonstrations…

History
Brian Carpenter: Today’s internet no longer recognizable
Internet pioneer Brian Carpenter reflects on early collaboration, governance lessons and today’s struggle for regional autonomy online.

North America Cloud Services Trends
Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic forge landmark AI partnership
The Microsoft-NVIDIA-Anthropic partnership matters because it ties model access, cloud capacity, accelerator architecture and capital into one public announcement. Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion of Microsoft Azure compute capacity and to contract additional capacity…

People
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
Ermanno Pietrosemoli pioneered Latin America’s Internet, enabling satellite, Wi-Fi, and cross-border connectivity for research.

People
Olga Cavalli
Olga Cavalli reflects on her role in Latin American Internet governance, highlighting key initiatives, challenges, and successes.

History
‘Pioneer of African Women in Tech’: Interview with Dorcas Muthoni
Kenyan innovator Dorcas Muthoni helped bring Internet connectivity to Africa’s universities and empower women in tech.

North America Cloud Services Trends
Cisco and G42 deepen US-UAE AI partnership
Cisco and G42's October 2025 expansion is not just another AI partnership announcement. Cisco is taking the networking, security, observability and integration role for a G42-deployed AI cluster using AMD MI350X GPUs inside G42's Regulated Technology Environment. That makes the…

History
‘Father of Chile’s Internet’: Interview with Florencio Utreras
Florencio Utreras, “Father of Internet in Chile”, led Chile’s BITNET, built REUNA, and headed Latin America’s RedCLARA.

Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
OpenAI to offer UK data residency in new government partnership
OpenAI's UK data residency announcement is a public-sector adoption and control event, not just a product-region update. OpenAI said on 22 October 2025 that it had a new Ministry of Justice agreement and would introduce UK data residency on 24 October for eligible API Platform…

People
Vint Cerf
A look at the creation of the internet from one of its pioneers, Vint Cerf, detailing the crucial decisions, technological leaps, and moments of disbelief.
