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Airties makes every security block a broadband decision
Putting protection in the router can reach devices that will never run security software. It also means that when the router gets a decision wrong, the security product has changed the broadband service. Airties' new offer will be judged as much by the route back from a block as…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Bird’s $450 million debt finances shareholder liquidity, not proof of agent demand
Bird has paired a dividend recapitalisation with an ambitious communications layer for AI agents. The first transaction can be completed by banks and shareholders; the second becomes valuable only when authorised machine actions survive consent, delivery, carrier charges, abuse…
Global Datacenter Trends
vHive's data-centre twin needs a clock and a referee
A camera can show an empty rack unit. It cannot decide whether that space has power, cooling, connectivity or a tenant's rights attached to it. vHive's new data-centre offer will be valuable to the extent that its shared view preserves those differences instead of flattening…
Global Institutional Trends
Lightera’s Subsea Fiber Expansion Still Needs a Demand Bridge
Lightera plans to nearly triple submarine optical-fiber manufacturing capacity by 2029. The commercial test is whether early demand visibility becomes qualified programmes, contracted volume, plant utilisation and durable cash returns.
Global Datacenter Trends
Coherent’s PhotonLink Engagements Need a Revenue Trail
Treating PhotonLink’s launch pipeline as a revenue ledger would credit Coherent with sales before their scope, timing and accounting basis are established. The commercial question is how its integrated optics offer moves from customer discussions and agreements to attributable…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Corero’s 42% revenue growth has a second clock
Corero’s half-year sales and margin improved sharply. Its recurring contract base moved at a different pace, and the revenue table shows why both observations can be true.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Taboola’s Dianomi offer is 64p in cash—and a 24p test of publisher migration
The advertised 88p ceiling is not a single cheque. One layer is financed cash; the other is an unsecured claim whose value will be decided after Taboola controls the business, selected publishers accept tougher contracts and their net revenue is measured against a private…
Global Datacenter Trends
Generac’s US$8bn Warrant Meter Sits Above a Redacted Order Floor
Generac disclosed exactly how far Amazon-linked payments can move a 1,693,745-share warrant, yet withheld the minimum value of the Firm Orders beneath the supply relationship. That leaves investors with a visible equity ceiling and an invisible commercial floor—and makes the…
Global Datacenter Trends
AXG and Digital Realty Offer 31 Markets, Not a Deployment Ledger
The partnership gives integrators a broad channel for hosted private infrastructure. Its commercial promise will be proved one customer, facility, acceptance test and exit schedule at a time.
Global Cloud Services
Cloudflare’s 2022 outage: rollback did not prove independent failover
Cloudflare’s 21 June 2022 outage shows why geographically distributed capacity can still share one failure surface: rollback restored service, while the public record does not show that an independent path carried the load.
Global Datacenter Trends
GlobalFoundries expands chip capacity for Marvell
The multi-year deal adds SiGe manufacturing capacity in Vermont for 200G-per-lane optical components used in AI data-centre networks.
Global Cloud Services Trends
China proposes BRICS open-source AI community
Beijing also wants a BRICS digital ecosystem cloud platform, but neither proposal yet has funding, infrastructure or an implementation timetable.
Global National Telecom Trends
Nokia links network data to Microsoft Fabric
The integration gives telecom operators a common data layer for network automation, reducing the need to build separate pipelines for each AI use case.
Global National Telecom Trends
WRC-27 weighs new spectrum rules for D2D
WRC-27 will consider new spectrum rules for satellite links to ordinary mobile devices as regulators work through interference, licensing and cross-border coordination.
Global Datacenter Trends
Onsemi unveils wafer-level power platform for AI racks
Its Embedded Power Platform integrates power devices into a silicon wafer-level package, targeting denser power delivery as AI racks consume more electricity.
Global Cloud Services
Oracle Cloud’s automation promise meets the limits of deployment
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is more than a transit-routing service: it offers code-driven provisioning, event-triggered operations, recovery orchestration and specialized AI capacity. The practical question is not whether these controls exist, but how much operational work they…
Global National Telecom Trends
6G plans shift towards reusing 5G spectrum and radios
Early 6G designs favour reusing 5G infrastructure, which could reduce opportunities for operators to switch suppliers.
Global Cloud Services Trends
SD-WAN strengthens as SASE growth tops 20%
Dell'Oro says SASE revenue reached $3.5bn in Q2 while SD-WAN strengthened as enterprises selectively replaced ageing branch infrastructure.
Global National Telecom Trends
Harmonic expands beyond DOCSIS with fibre and AI
Harmonic is pushing further into PON and AI software as cable operators add fibre, aiming to stay relevant as the physical access network changes.
Global National Telecom Trends
Nokia names eight operators testing AI-RAN
Eight operators are testing Nokia and NVIDIA AI-RAN technology, but none has announced a commercial deployment.