Net Insight Introduces Programmable Video Production Network
Net Insight unveiled programmable Trust Boundaries, a new layer that creates deterministic IP demarcation points for live‑media workflows. Integrated into the Open Media Platform and powered by Nimbra Live Intelligence, the solution supports uncompressed video and JPEG XS at up to 800 Gbps per rack unit. Open APIs enable automated domain interconnection, per‑flow protection, and strict bandwidth policing. The technology replaces traditional media gateways, allowing broadcasters to interconnect directly over IP while maintaining low‑latency, secure, and predictable performance.
Wireless AI Paradox Emerges as Wi-Fi Evolves Into Strategic Growth Engine
Cisco's State of Wireless 2026 report, based on 6,098 decision‑makers, reveals a “wireless AI paradox”: AI drives the biggest ROI while also creating security and talent challenges. Enterprises that treat Wi‑Fi as a strategic asset see compounding benefits—78% report efficiency...
AI-Driven Operating Model Key to Cloud-Native, Autonomous Networks
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) released a briefing titled "Cloud native next chapter – agentic AI‑based operating models" that maps cloud‑native maturity to AI readiness for telecom operators. The document defines five progressive AI adoption levels aligned with...
SpaceLocker Launches First Shared Satellite Mission
SpaceLocker has moved from an in‑orbit hosting service to a full satellite operator with its first owned CubeSat, Out of the Box. The 16U, 20‑kg platform carries five European payloads using a patented universal space port that works like a...
How the UK’s ‘Neet’ Youth Can Power the Digital Economy
Nearly one in eight UK youths aged 16‑24 are classified as NEET, representing almost one million people whose potential is untapped for the country’s expanding digital economy. A mentorship and apprenticeship program helped Angel from Croydon transition from uncertainty to...
Delta In-Flight Connectivity Takes Off with Amazon Leo
Delta Air Lines has partnered with Amazon to equip its fleet with high‑speed, low‑latency internet via Amazon Leo, the company’s low‑Earth‑orbit satellite service. The rollout will begin in 2028 with an initial installation on 500 aircraft, expanding Delta’s existing AWS‑based...
Cato Networks Unveils Modular Adoption Model for SASE Platform
Cato Networks announced a modular adoption model for its core SASE platform, allowing enterprises to select and add capabilities such as AI security, SD‑WAN, SSE and universal ZTNA on demand. The solution runs on the GPU‑powered Cato Neural Edge, a...
Virgin Media O2 Accelerates UK 5G Upgrade Programme
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has signed multiyear contracts with Ericsson and Nokia as part of a £700 m (≈$889 m) mobile transformation plan to overhaul its UK 5G network. The agreements will upgrade the majority of VMO2’s radio access network to 5G+...
Orange Steams Ahead in French Railway Connectivity
France’s rail corridors now enjoy near‑universal 4G coverage, yet passenger‑grade connectivity varies sharply among operators. Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence data (Mar 2025‑Mar 2026) shows Orange delivering a median download speed of 283.4 Mbps—52% faster than SFR and more than double Free’s 120.4 Mbps. Latency forms...
Pave Space Raises $40M to Hasten Satellite Deployment
Swiss startup Pave Space announced a $40 million seed round, one of the largest recent financings in the space sector. The funding will accelerate development of its heavy‑kick orbital transfer vehicle designed to move satellites from low‑Earth orbit to GEO, MEO...
Virgin Media Business Wholesale Accelerates High-Capacity Delivery in the UK
Virgin Media Business Wholesale announced a major milestone in its Project Spark network transformation, completing national upgrades to its high‑capacity core, metro and MPLS layers. The new National High‑Capacity Services core now spans 23 sites, supporting 83% of demand, while...
Nokia Joins Linx as Technical Partner for London Network Refresh
Linx has completed a major refresh of its LON2 secondary interconnection fabric, selecting Nokia as the technical partner. The upgrade replaces nearly 25‑year‑old hardware with a platform that supports 10GE, 100GE, 400GE and future 800GE ports. LON2 remains architecturally distinct...
Proptivity, Telehouse Team for Reliable Indoor 4G, 5G in London Workplaces
Telehouse Europe has teamed with Proptivity to roll out high‑performance indoor 4G and 5G across London office buildings. The partnership uses Telehouse’s Docklands campus as a UK interconnection hub, enabling a neutral‑host model where multiple mobile operators share a single...
Connectivity to the Fore as Sunderland Commits to 2035 Digital Strategy
Sunderland City Council unveiled a 2035 digital‑inclusion strategy that builds on its Smart City Programme launched in 2019. The plan expands full‑fibre coverage from 25% to 82% of homes, creates 37 digital health hubs and pilots Open RAN technology at the...
Platformisation or Platform Theatre? Navigating Cyber Consolidation
Enterprise security consolidation is accelerating, with a 2025 IBM‑Palo Alto report showing firms juggle an average of 83 tools from 29 vendors. While unified platforms promise streamlined operations, many deliver only superficial integration, creating a hidden single point of failure....
Akamai Launches AI Grid Intelligent Orchestration
Akamai announced the first global‑scale implementation of Nvidia’s AI Grid, deploying thousands of RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs across its 4,400‑node edge network. The AI Grid adds an intelligent orchestrator that routes inference requests to the optimal compute tier, slashing...
Ciena Upgrades Subsea Cable Throughput for Meta, Lightstorm
Ciena used its WaveLogic 6 Extreme optics to set a new subsea record, transmitting 800 Gbps on a single wavelength across the 16,608‑km Bifrost cable and delivering 18 Tbps of total capacity with a 50% reduction in watts‑per‑bit. The trial, conducted with Meta, demonstrates...
Cambridge MC Boosts Comms Procurement with Carrier Club Acquisition
Cambridge Management Consulting has acquired The Carrier Club, a specialist that provides procurement‑as‑a‑service for telecommunications spend. The Carrier Club claims it can cut telecom costs by up to 30%, saving clients millions of pounds (roughly $1.3‑$2 million). The deal expands Cambridge...
Tata Communications Unveils Self-Healing Network
Tata Communications has introduced IZO datacentre Dynamic Connectivity, a self‑healing network platform that automatically reroutes traffic to prevent downtime. The solution uses deterministic multi‑path routing and AI‑driven analytics to deliver >99.99% availability across global data‑center links. Enterprises can monitor performance via...
BT Boosts Connectivity, Security for Northern Ireland Electricity Networks
BT Group has signed a 10‑year agreement worth up to £200 million (about $255 million) with Northern Ireland Electricity Networks (NIE Networks) to provide upgraded connectivity, cybersecurity and IT services. The contract will support NIE’s digital transformation across its 966,000‑customer base and...
Avaya Finds Louder Voice for Mission-Critical Comms Platform
Avaya has launched Nexus, a mission‑critical voice platform aimed at regulated sectors such as public safety, healthcare, financial services and defence. The solution promises always‑on resiliency, hardened security and cloud‑native flexibility, while exposing APIs for AI‑driven transcription, authentication and analytics....
Trade-Ins Returned $6.4bn to US Mobile Consumers in 2025
U.S. smartphone trade‑in programmes returned more than $6.4 bn to consumers in 2025, a 42% year‑on‑year jump and the highest total since Assurant began tracking in 2015. The surge was driven by rapid adoption of AI‑enabled features and premium 5G devices,...
Why IT Leaders Need to Consider AI’s Energy Footprint
Gartner forecasts datacentre electricity consumption reaching about 1,200 TWh by 2030, a 20% rise from the previous year. AI‑optimized GPU servers are projected to draw roughly 156 GW, underscoring the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pledged that Azure now...
Interview: Jem Walters, CTO, Vanquis
Jem Walters, former Virgin Money CIO and co‑founder of the Snoop app, became CTO of Vanquis in September 2023 to lead a sweeping digital overhaul. He is consolidating three legacy technology stacks into a unified Salesforce‑based platform while building a Snowflake‑powered...
UK Cyber Monitoring Centre Plans Expansion in US Amid Risk of Category 5 Attack
The UK Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) is preparing a US‑based operation to quantify the financial fallout of cyber incidents, targeting a 2027 launch after proving its model in Britain. In its first year, the CMC rated two 2025 attacks –...
Telenor IoT Expands Global Connectivity with Launch of Global APN
Telenor IoT has launched a Global APN service that lets enterprises use a single access point name across Europe, Asia‑Pacific and the Americas. The offering automatically routes devices to the nearest Telenor point of presence—Stockholm, Amsterdam, Singapore, Ashburn and Los Angeles—reducing...
US Lawmakers Quiz Meta over ‘Dangerous’ Facial-Recognition Plans for Smart Glasses
U.S. senators have written to Meta demanding details on its plan to embed facial‑recognition technology in upcoming smart glasses. They argue the capability could instantly link captured faces to social‑media profiles, enabling mass surveillance, doxxing, and targeted intimidation. The lawmakers...
Lab for Autonomous Agents to Drive Boost in Manufacturing in India
IBM Research has inaugurated Emergence India Labs (EIL) in Bengaluru to accelerate development of autonomous AI systems for manufacturing, logistics, and critical infrastructure. The lab aims to shift India’s tech focus from IT services to frontier agentic AI, leveraging a...
UK Government Unveils Gigabit Broadband Upgrade Tracker
The UK government has launched an online address checker that lets businesses and households verify whether they are slated for a gigabit broadband upgrade under the Project Gigabit scheme. The programme, funded with £5 billion, now brings gigabit‑capable service to more than...
UK Atomic Energy Authority Readies Fusion Simulation AI Supercomputer
The UK government is funding a £45 million AI supercomputer, Sunrise, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Campus. Delivering 6.76 exaflops of AI performance on a 1.4 MW AMD‑Dell platform, Sunrise aims to become the world’s most powerful AI system dedicated...
Interview: There Is No Such Thing as an IT Project, only Business Projects, Says CIO Paul Coby
Paul Coby, a veteran UK CIO, argues that there is no such thing as an IT project—only business projects, and that success hinges on aligning technology with core business priorities. He shares lessons from his tenures at British Airways, John Lewis,...
Revealed: How HMRC Has Been Quietly Building Surveillance Capabilities
HMRC has quietly built a mobile‑phone surveillance capability, signing a 2021 contract with Cellxion for IMSI‑catcher equipment worth £330,460 and later paying £102,000 for software licences. The tax authority uses the gear, installed in vehicles by Sonic Communications, to locate...
Azure Local Disconnected Looks the Part for Sovereignty. It Isn’t.
Microsoft announced Azure Local Disconnected Operations as generally available, positioning it as the flagship of a new Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud. In reality, the offering is a controlled‑access preview that requires a Microsoft‑approved business need and explicit purchase approval. Technical...
Do Neoclouds Mean a World Where Anything Is Possible?
Neocloud providers are emerging as fast‑moving alternatives to the big three hyperscalers by offering GPU‑as‑a‑service compute built on crypto‑mining and liquid‑cooling expertise. They can stand up dedicated GPU clusters in weeks to months, far quicker than the years‑long procurement cycles...
Unreliable Fleet Connectivity Driving Employee Exodus
Ericsson’s 2025 study of 400 UK and Irish fleet managers reveals that unreliable cellular connectivity is a major pain point, with nearly a third of managers citing it as damaging to their professional reputation and 29% of drivers considering leaving...
CES 2026: Connected Vehicles Accelerate the Pace of AI
At CES 2026 the spotlight shifted from prototype showcases to production‑ready connected vehicles, underscoring the convergence of robotics, AI and automotive electronics. Qualcomm announced a partnership with Chinese startup Leapmotor to equip the D19 with a dual Snapdragon Elite platform, marking the...
Vulnerability Reports: Increase in Quantity, Decrease in Quality?
cURL founder Daniel Stenberg has shut down his HackerOne bug bounty program after a sharp rise in low‑quality, AI‑generated vulnerability reports. In early 2026 his team reviewed 20 submissions, seven arriving within 16 hours, none of which were genuine flaws....
AI at Rimini Street: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast
Rimini Street’s CEO Seth Ravin discussed how the company is leveraging AI to transform its support call handling. By integrating Microsoft Copilot and Gemini, AI now routes cases to the right engineers, cutting resolution time by nearly 30% and achieving...
Enormous AI Growth Zone Datacentre Gets Planning Approval
Planning permission has been granted for Elsham Tech Park, a 1 GW AI datacentre in north Lincolnshire – one of the UK’s largest and located in an AI growth zone. The development will span 1.5 million sq m, host 15 data halls and generate...
Met Office ‘Supercomputing as a Service’ One Year Old
The Met Office marked one year of its Microsoft‑powered "supercomputing as a service" platform, delivering roughly 1.8 million cores and 60 petaflops of compute in Azure. The cloud‑based system achieved 100 % uptime for critical workloads and 99.77 % availability for the supercomputing tier....
Ericsson, Future Technologies Scale Wireless Infrastructure for Industrial AI
Ericsson and Future Technologies Venture have deepened their 13‑year collaboration to accelerate enterprise wireless and private 5G rollouts for AI‑driven industrial operations across North America. The partnership will combine Ericsson’s cellular technology with Future Technologies’ systems‑integration services, targeting sectors such...
Met Police to ‘Trial’ Handheld Facial Recognition Tech
London’s Metropolitan Police will pilot Operator‑Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), a handheld app that matches live facial images to police databases. The six‑month trial, budgeted at £763,000, will deploy about 100 devices and is overseen by the Mayor’s office and the...
Public and Private Sector Key to Digital Realty in West Africa
Digital Realty inaugurated its first West African datacentre, ACR2, near Accra in November 2025, a 1.7 MW, 1,100 m² facility that builds on its earlier cable landing station ACR1. The launch follows the landing of Meta’s 2Africa subsea cable and reflects a broader...
Render Networks Unveils Synchronised Agentic Critical Infrastructure Architecture
Render Networks announced its ClearWay platform, a synchronized agentic architecture for critical infrastructure. The system converts design data into live work scopes, using autonomous agents with identity and least‑privilege controls to validate field progress and approve work in real time....
Huawei: Agent-Oriented Mobile Networks to Define AgentVerse
Huawei unveiled the AgentVerse at MWC 2026, a vision that extends the 5G core with AI‑driven agents and predicts a 10,000‑fold rise in agent‑handled work by 2030. The initiative builds on the Agentic Core, which integrates real‑time experience awareness, global resource...
Qualcomm Plots Out 6G, Wi-Fi 8 Future with AI as the New User Interface
Qualcomm unveiled its AI‑edge roadmap at MWC 2026, emphasizing a shift from cloud‑centric AI to hybrid edge AI across smartphones, wearables, PCs and future 6G networks. The company introduced a Snapdragon 8 Elite platform with a 37% faster neural processing unit, a Snapdragon Wear Elite...
Interview: Nick Pearson, CIO, Ricoh Europe
Nick Pearson joined Ricoh Europe as CIO in December 2023, stepping into a newly created board‑level role to steer the company’s shift from a hardware‑centric, asset‑based model to a services‑focused business. He oversees a federated IT organisation that supports 17,000 employees,...
AI Factory Builder Nscale Announces Another $2bn of Funding
Nscale, a UK AI factory builder, secured $2 bn in C‑Series funding, valuing the company at $14.6 bn. The round lifts total capital raised to just over $4.9 bn within a year, led by Aker ASA and 8090 Industries with Dell, Lenovo, Nokia...
Harvey Nash Docuseries Addresses AI Skills ‘Paradox’
Harvey Nash’s new Tech Flix docuseries, *The AI Skills Paradox*, reveals an 82% year‑on‑year surge in demand for AI expertise while fewer than half of surveyed organisations are actively upskilling their workforce. The research highlights stark disparities in AI access tied to...
Interview: Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham on Getting ‘Hands-On’ with AI
Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham is getting hands‑on with artificial intelligence, co‑creating internal AI agents and overseeing AI‑driven discovery and personalization projects. The London‑based marketplace reported $500 m cumulative sales, $100 m annual revenue in 2024, and £3.2 m of incremental sales...
