IETF 125: Common Control and Measurement Plane (CCAMP) 2026-03-16 03:30
The IETF 125 session on Common Control and Measurement Plane (CCAMP) convened experts to discuss standardizing control and telemetry mechanisms across diverse networking technologies. Participants reviewed recent drafts on segment routing extensions, MPLS OAM enhancements, and unified telemetry frameworks. The meeting highlighted progress on interoperable APIs that enable operators to manage both packet and optical layers from a single plane. Outcomes include consensus on nextâstep specifications and a roadmap for broader industry adoption.
IETF 125: Hackathon (HACKATHON) 2026-03-15 06:00
The IETF 125 Hackathon convened developers, engineers, and standards experts to collaboratively prototype emerging Internet protocols. Participants worked in real time on draft specifications, producing openâsource code and test suites that demonstrate feasibility. The eventâs deliverables were immediately shared with...
AT&T Wireless | Donât Sleep On AT&T đâźď¸ This Is Massive
AT&T unveiled a $250âŻbillion investment plan aimed at overhauling its U.S. network infrastructure for the AI era. The capital outlay, the largest among domestic wireless carriers, is intended to fund midâband radio upgrades, fiber expansion, and new corporate facilities. The companyâs...
Member Spotlight - ISP Rok
The CâBand member spotlight featured Dave Star, founder of ISP Rock, a platform that grew out of his early handsâon work with a struggling wireless ISP in Omaha. Star described how the company transformed a personal need for bandwidth control...
Huawei Expands Global Connectivity Access
At the Tech Cares Forum in Barcelona, Huawei highlighted its role in the ITUâs Partner to Connect framework, pledging to close the digital divide for billions excluded from the AIâdriven economy. The company announced it has already exceeded its original...
LIVE - Falcon 9 Starlink Group 17-31
The video captures the live launch of SpaceXâs FalconâŻ9 carrying Starlink GroupâŻ17â31, a batch of 60 lowâEarthâorbit satellites intended to expand the companyâs broadband constellation. The broadcast interleaves the launch countdown with onâtheâground footage from Ghanaâs Volta region, where a...
O-RAN ALLIANCE Summit 2026 - Live Replay
The OâRAN Alliance Summit 2026, held at MWC, served as a barometer for the openâradioâaccessânetwork ecosystem as it moves from experimental pilots toward largeâscale, revenueâgenerating deployments. Analyst Gabriel Brown opened the session, emphasizing that the allianceâs eightâyear journey is now...
MWC26: Why the 5GAA Wants More 5GSA
At MWC26 in Barcelona, Maxine Flamour, CTO of the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), explained the groupâs agenda to expand 5G standalone (SA) networks beyond isolated markets and to integrate satellite and edge solutions for a truly global connectedâcar ecosystem. Flamour emphasized...
Nokia and Broadcom on Cloud-Native Transformation, AI and the Path to 6G
At MWC26, Nokia and Broadcom announced a joint cloudânative transformation platform that lets telecom operators run both VMâbased and containerized packetâcore workloads during migration. The partnership combines Nokiaâs packetâcore software with Broadcomâs silicon and AI accelerators to provide endâtoâend validation,...
Integrating Telecom Domains with VistaOne
Infovista unveiled VistaOne, a unified platform that consolidates network planning, testing, and service monitoring into a single portal. The solution leverages VistaAI to interconnect these telecom domains, allowing data and insights to flow seamlessly across applications such as VistaPlan, VistaTest,...
MWC26: Interview with Jonas Lagerquist, Director Product Management, Enea
Mobile operators are confronting exploding video traffic and highâfrequency 5G limitations, prompting a focus on WiâFi offloading, says Jonas Lagerquist, Director of Product Management at Enea. He outlines three drivers: video now accounts for up to 70% of mobile data, indoor...
MWC26: Interview with Marcin Kaleta, CEO of Comarch Communications
In a Mobile World Congress interview, Comarch Communications CEO Marcin Kaleta outlined the companyâs strategic shift from traditional telco software toward satellite services and missionâcritical infrastructure. Kaleta argued that dwindling mobileâservice revenues and the growing complexity of logistics and parcelâdelivery...
MWC26: ETSIâs Role in AI Security, 6G and the Quantum Era
ETSI DirectorâGeneral Jan Ellsberger outlined how standardisation will underpin the rollout of 6G, AIâdriven security and the quantum computing era. He highlighted ETSIâs coordinated effort to bring together telecom operators, chipmakers and AI experts to draft a unified cybersecurity framework...
MWC26: Telenorâs CTO on Sovereignty and Smarter Networks
At MWC26, Telenor Group CTO Cathal Kennedy outlined the carrierâs shifting technology roadmap, emphasizing data sovereignty as a core design principle. He detailed the launch of Telenorâs AI factory, a centralized hub that automates the creation and rollout of intelligent...
AIânative Technologies Driving Telco Transformation
The video announces a joint initiative between Everpure, Red Hat and Nokia that bundles telcoâgrade storage, containerânative infrastructure and core network applications into a single AIânative architecture. The solution layers Nokiaâs legacy core applications on Red Hatâs OpenShift container platform, while...
Powering 5G Growth with HPE Gen12 and Intel Xeon 6
HPE and Intel unveiled a joint roadmap to accelerate 5G network expansion, spotlighting HPEâs Gen12 edge platforms paired with Intelâs XeonâŻ6 systemâonâchip. The collaboration emphasizes disaggregated compute, integrated accelerators, and highâspeed networking to meet the surge in mobile traffic. Both...
InterDigital CTO on How 6G Can Support AI-Driven Applications
At MWC26, InterDigital CTO Rajesh Pankaj explained that 6G will complement AI-driven applications rather than compete with them. He highlighted the need for dramatically higher uplink capacity and subâmillisecond latency to support realâtime AI workloads. Pankaj also stressed the importance...
NaaS as a Business Strategy for 5G Monetisation
At MWC26, Virtusaâs Niladri Dutta argued that networkâasâaâservice (NaaS) has moved beyond a technical concept to become a core business strategy for telecom operators seeking 5G monetisation. He highlighted how AIâdriven automation is turning 5G networks into selfâoptimising platforms, reducing...
IETF Interim: Extensions for Scalable DNS Service Discovery (DNSSD) 2026-03-11 17:00
The IETF DNSSD interim meeting on March 11, 2026 reviewed progress on extensions aimed at scaling DNS Service Discovery for massive, heterogeneous environments. Participants examined draft specifications for hierarchical service registries, bulk query optimization, and security enhancements for IoT deployments....
The Invisible Threat: Secure & Sovereign Digital Backbone
The video examines the hidden, supplyâchainâdriven threats that jeopardize a nationâs digital backbone, especially as critical infrastructure becomes increasingly softwareâcentric. It argues that traditional security models focused on human error are insufficient when stateâbacked actors infiltrate telecom, finance, transportation and...
T-Mobile | Major Improvements âźď¸đ Tmobile Impressed đ Just Crazy âźď¸đł
The video documents a recent 24âhour road trip through Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio, using TâMobile as the primary carrier. The creator highlights that native LTE/5G service remained active for the entire journey, with only a brief...
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How Do You Bring the FIFA World Cup⢠to the World? [Partner Content From Verizon]
Verizon has been appointed the official telecommunications services sponsor for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, tasked with constructing the digital backbone across all 16 host cities in North America. The partnership positions the carrier at the center of the tournamentâs...
Simplifying Network Automation with Wingpy
On the Network Automation Nerds podcast, Andreas Lundqvist introduced WinPy, his new open-source project designed to simplify network automation for engineers who arenât Python experts. He positioned WinPy as a pragmatic tool to streamline routine deployment, maintenance and operational tasks,...
Cyient Showcases the Human + AI Blueprint for Autonomous Networks
Cyient used the webcast to unveil its "humanâŻ+âŻAI" blueprint for autonomous networks, positioning the company at the forefront of LevelâŻ3 and LevelâŻ4 automation. By partnering with leading original equipment manufacturers, Cyient aims to deliver a consistent autonomy layer that can...
Arrcus CEO on Rapid Growth and AI Inference Network Fabric
Arrcus CEO Shekar Ayyar announced the launch of the Arrcus Inference Network Fabric at MWC26, positioning the company as a key player in AIâfocused networking. The new fabric delivers subâmicrosecond latency, high bandwidth, and openâAPI integration, aimed at accelerating AI...
Arrcus Unveils AI Networking Partnerships and Solutions
At MWC26, Arrcus CEO Shekar Ayyar unveiled the Arrcus Inference Network Fabric (AINF), a policyârich AI networking solution designed to accelerate inference workloads. The company also announced strategic collaborations with Fujitsuâs 1FINITY team, Lightstorm in the AsiaâPacific region, UfiSpace, and...
ZTE Honored with Multiple GLOMO Awards, Pioneering an Intelligent Future
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ZTE was celebrated with two GLOMO Awards for breakthrough 5G solutions, highlighted by deputy general manager Sun J. The accolades recognize an AIâdriven 5G robot platform and a millimeterâwave broadcasting system that together showcase...
Alianza on Using AI to Drive Revenue Growth
The video introduces Alianzaâs platform that overlays an orchestration layer on top of a service providerâs modernized core network. By leveraging an intelligent communications fabric, the solution enables providers to expose a new generation of AIâdriven services that are independent...
Connected America Preview
The Community Broadband Action Network podcast previewed Connected America, a twoâday conference scheduled for April 14â15 at the Irving Convention Center near Dallas. Organized by Brad Randallâs team, the event expects roughly 1,500 participants ranging from municipal officials to privateâsector...
30 Years of the 1996 Telecommunications Act
The video commemorates three decades since the 1996 Telecommunications Act, weaving personal recollectionsâfrom a highâschool student with a beeper to a former FCC legal adviserâinto a broader narrative about how the law reshaped Americaâs communications landscape. The Actâs core achievement was...
Exciting Time for Wi-Fi, AI PCs and Intel
Intel highlighted its pivotal role in expanding WiâFi into the 6âŻGHz band, tracing the journey from an FCC demonstration in 2020 to the commercial launch of firstâgeneration products four months later. The conversation also covered the rollout of WiâFiâŻ7, the...
How Statseeker Delivers Critical Network Intelligence (Sponsored)
The Tech Bites podcast introduces Statseeker, a selfâhosted network monitoring platform that captures highâfidelity telemetry across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike SaaS alternatives, Statseeker runs onâpremises or in any cloud tenant, giving customers full control over data storage and...
Modernizing Network Lifecycle Management
The discussion centers on modernizing network lifecycle management for owners of critical infrastructure, where legacy equipment ranging from threeâdecadeâold gear to brandânew devices coexists. Dan from Fortress explains that the primary hurdle is locating, monitoring, and maintaining this heterogeneous mix,...
DSP Leaders Industry Vision 2026 Report: Results Panel
The panel at MWC26 unpacked the DSP Leaders Industry Vision 2026 report, revealing how telcos are prioritising artificial intelligence. Surveyed council members identified improving operational efficiency as the top AI objective (52%), while a notable 34% aim to create new...
Arrcus: AI Inference Calls for Smart, Policy-Aware Network Fabrics
Arrcus used its Mobile World Congress slot to spotlight a new AI inferenceâfocused network fabric, positioning the company as a bridge between exploding dataâcenter capacity, 5G rollouts, and the emerging inference workload wave. The executive highlighted three macro trends fueling...
Senko on How Hollow Core Fiber Could Solve AI Data Centersâ Land and Power Crunch
The interview at Mobile World Congress spotlights hollowâcore (holo) fiber as a potential gameâchanger for AIâdriven data centers. While the technology has existed for three decades under the name photonic crystal fiber, its ultraâlow latencyâabout 30% faster signal propagationâmakes...
AI Integration in Telecom Networks and 6G Possibilities
At MWC 2026, Tony Pulos hosted a panel with Nvidiaâs VP of AI and Telecoms and Super Microâs head of 5G and edge solutions to explore how artificial intelligence will be woven into the fabric of nextâgeneration telecom networks. The...
Building End-to-End AI Architectures
At MWC 2026, telecom executive Tony Pulas convened Nvidiaâs Chris Penrose and Supermicroâs Vic Mala to discuss the challenges and solutions surrounding endâtoâend AI architectures for telcos and enterprises. The panel highlighted that while ambition to adopt AI is high,...
Designing NextâGen 5G/6G & AIâDriven Devices
The video outlines a collaborative effort between Nvidia, Synopsys and RohdeâŻSchwarz to create a lifecycle digitalâtwin platform for nextâgeneration 5G/6G and AIâdriven devices. The partnership targets the emerging challenge of nativeâAI radio access networks, where antennas and radios must adapt...
Tarana and MTN Cameroon Share Real Results From Next Gen Fixed Wireless
The video highlights a strategic partnership between Tarana and MTN Cameroon to roll out nextâgeneration fixed wireless access (FWA) that delivers fiberâcomparable speeds while avoiding the high costs and long timelines of traditional fiber deployments. Taranaâs 15âyearâold technology offers rapid, lowâcost...
ZTEâs 6G Vision
At MWC Barcelona, Grace Tang, viceâpresident of ZTEâs SETI division, outlined the companyâs 6G roadmap, emphasizing two strategic convergences: integration with nonâterrestrial networks (NTN) and deep coupling with artificial intelligence (AI) under the evolving 3GPP framework. Tang detailed a heterogeneous XPU...
Webinar: Security Analysis of Critical 5G Interface | 5G Security | Telecom Security | TelcoLearn
The webinar, hosted by Telanâs Sanjay Kumar and delivered by telecom researcher Arpit, examined why 5G interface security must move from an optional addâon to a builtâin requirement. It traced the evolution of 5Gâs serviceâbased architecture, highlighted the critical...
Multicast Fundamentals
The Endless for Networking podcast episode introduces multicast fundamentals, featuring HPE Juniper senior engineer Lenny Giuliano. He explains that multicast sends a single data stream only to nodes that have expressed interest, combining the bandwidth efficiency of broadcast with the...
Connectivity Driving Manufacturing Transformation Across the Product Lifecycle | On the Mind: MWC
Verizonâs Daniel Lawson told attendees at MWC that 5G has reached critical mass in manufacturing, shifting from pilots to full production deployments that stitch together use cases endâtoâend. Deployments now span highâreliability private 5G for robotics and computer vision in...
AIâNative Telco Networks with Everpure's Patrick Lopez
The interview at MWC Barcelona introduced Everpure, the newlyânamed entity that evolved from Pure Storage to encompass data management and infrastructure services beyond traditional storage. Patrick Lopez explained the rebrand reflects an "everâpure" architecture designed for the AIânative telco era,...
BSS and OSS in an Agentic World | On the Mind: MWC Day Three
Speakers at MWC 2026 framed OSS and BSS evolution as an unfinished journey from legacy, integration-heavy stacks toward cloud-native platformsâand said the arrival of agentic AI adds a new architectural layer. An agent fabric or operating layer will sit above...
From Automation to Autonomy: Building Self-Driving Networks
At MWC26, HPEâs EVP Sujay Haja outlined how AI is turning traditional network automation into truly autonomous, selfâdriving networks that prioritize user experience over mere uptime. Haja emphasized that âup is not the same as good,â arguing that networks must learn,...
HPE and AMD Drive 5G Core Innovation
At Mobile World Congress 2026, HPE and AMD unveiled a joint roadmap to power nextâgeneration 5G core networks. The partnership leverages AMDâs EPYC processors, Instinct GPUs and networking IP, integrated into HPEâs Helios platform, to deliver higher throughput, lower latency...
Chairman Carr at Mobile World Congress 2026
ChairmanâŻJillâŻCarr used his Mobile World Congress slot to outline the FCCâs aggressive 2026 agenda, emphasizing spectrum expansion, deregulation, and satelliteâterrestrial convergence. She highlighted the 800âŻMHz pipeline unlocked by the 2022 taxâcut legislation and the upcoming upper Câband auction as cornerstones...
The AI Unlock: Totogi Says Telcos Need Context to Scale
At Mobile World Congress, Totogiâs Dr. Sean highlighted a fundamental barrier preventing telcos from scaling Agentic AI: the absence of a unified contextual layer. While operators possess abundant data and compute power, disparate definitions across hundreds of legacy systems create...