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.

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.

People
Alan Emtage
Explore Alan Emtage, creator of Archie, the world’s first search engine, transformed global information discovery online.

CASE FILE
ARCEP's African regulatory role is a cooperation channel, not a colonial control story
Arcep France is not an African regulator and it does not control African telecom markets. The evidence-led story is narrower and more useful: Arcep acts as a French regulatory export node inside Francophone regulatory cooperation. Through Fratel, the 2025 Abidjan seminar, the…

North America Datacenter Trends
EdgeCore's Virginia campus plan is a power-capacity bet, not a land-price story
EdgeCore's Virginia announcement is a campus-capacity signal, not a land-price story. The evidence-led claim is that EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure plans to invest $17 billion in a Louisa County data center campus on 697 acquired acres at Shannon Hill Regional Business Park…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
VIAVI and Hanyang turn a 6G MoU into a Seoul lab-validation signal
VIAVI and Hanyang University's June 2025 memorandum of understanding is useful because it links a test-and-assurance vendor to a Seoul research center working on AI-RAN, 5G and 6G validation. The collaboration does not prove a commercial 6G deployment or a national funding award…

North America Cloud Services Trends
Nokia broadens partnership with Microsoft for Azure datacenter networks
Nokia's November 2024 expansion with Microsoft matters because it puts a named network supplier inside Azure's datacenter growth path for another five years. Nokia will supply datacenter routers and switches, including the 7250 IXR-10e platform and custom top-of-rack management…

Global Cloud Services Trends
Fingerprint and Oscilar partner on fintech fraud prevention
Fingerprint and Oscilar's May 2024 announcement matters because it connects two adjacent fraud-control layers for financial apps. Fingerprint supplies device identification and Smart Signals; Oscilar supplies the risk-decisioning workflow where banks, fintechs, and credit unions…
