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Fixed Wireless Access is still gaining momentum. A Dell’Oro report finds #FWA revenues grew ~10% in 2025 and total subscriptions on track to exceed 190M by 2029. Operators are using FWA to broaden broadband reach and compete with legacy services.

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AT&T has started deploying EchoStar Corporation's 3.45MHz midband spectrum before their transaction is complete, while Boost Mobile is migrating customers onto its network. Michelle Donegan reports...

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Edgecore Networks Corporation demonstrates upto 35.6% performance in collective communication benchmark with Broadcom’s Congestion Aware Sprayed Traffic (CAST). It successfully mitigates congestion measured in a cluster of MI300X GPUs interconnected with Edgecore AIS-800 switch - Broadcom’s Tomahawk 5 switches and Thor 2 400G NIC

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Thank you, Robin Olds, for a fantastic conversation on "Beyond the Fiber." It was a pleasure to discuss how we are re-architecting xHaul to move from simple connectivity to a deterministic, Unified Services AI Fabric for the LLM Era. Key Highlights from our Tech Talk: - Flexible End-to-End Transport: Cisco’s X-Haul technology delivers a flexible, end-to-end transport solution that seamlessly connects fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul networks to support advanced 5G services and future-ready architectures. - SRv6 Foundation: SRv6 technology simplifies network architecture and enhances programmability, scalability, and observability, serving as the foundation for a programmable Unified Services AI Fabric for network slicing and AI integration. Calls to Action: - Join us at Mobile World Congress 2026: Come see our live demo of "Monetizing SP Infrastructure with AI Traffic Network Slicing and LLM-Aware Routing." See how Cisco's network slicing and LLM routing help SPs unlock new revenue from existing assets— --Secure AI Interconnect delivers guaranteed performance, resiliency, low latency, policy guardrails, and data sovereignty, enabling you to move from "bit pipe" to AI enabler. --Distributed AI Edge platforms host LLMs, SLMs, and domain-specific models for compliant, resilient inference - Joint Study Partnership: We are seeking partners for a joint study on AI inference traffic in live networks. If interested, please contact me at waris@cisco.com. In case you missed the session, you can catch the full recording here: https://lnkd.in/gZWeEhF7 (Password: 5nwEnsmT24m)

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Ciena’s Rodney Wilson sits down with REANNZ's Amber McEwen and CANARIE’s Michael Tremblay to explore how national research networks power scientific discovery and global collaboration. They also discuss real‑world AI‑driven applications made possible by high‑performance networks. Listen now: https://bit.ly/49Zthnm

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Live events shouldn’t crash from their own success. This TechPost describes how TreeDN can prevent "catastrophic success" for today's mass audience live streaming events, and pave the way for more innovative and immersive streaming technologies: https://lnkd.in/eyXCqDiX

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It's that time again. I'm delighted to announce the release of Part 6 of the Demystifying the US Messaging Ecosystem Series! This installment provides a definitive, in-depth breakdown of the mechanics, compliance, and essential roles of the highest-assurance channels in A2P messaging: Toll-Free Texting and Short Codes. They certainly play a large and trusted role in the overall US messaging A2P (Business Texting) space. Inside this post you will find: >>The Provisioning Pipeline: A detailed table comparing the vetting parties and approval timelines for 10DLC (The Campaign Registry), Toll-Free (TSS/Somos, Inc.), and Short Codes (CSC/CTIA), highlighting the key difference between automated scalability and manual assurance. >>Toll-Free Deep Dive: Analysis of why the Somos, Inc. TSS Registry's voice-level authorization is critical for preventing fraud and ensuring TFNs remain the champions of Two-Way Customer Support. >> The Short Code Gold Standard: A look into the 6-12 week multi-carrier vetting process that makes Short Codes the definitive choice for OTPs and Mass-Market Alerts due to unmatched deliverability. >> The Market Outlook: Why the A2P SMS/MMS market's projected growth to $109 BILLION by 2034 confirms that SMS remains the unshakeable, universal foundation upon which RCS will be built. (Source: Zion Market Research) #MobileMessaging #A2P #SMS #MMS #ShortCode #TollFreeTexting #Compliance #MessagingEcosystem #CTIA #Somos #TCR #TheCampaignRegistry #BusinessTexting #GCHTechnologies It's all here: https://lnkd.in/e_-7tRp6

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"Staff time is often not factored into the total cost" - my friend Joe Addalia just nailed why MTTR discussions miss the point. I published an article breaking down the real cost of network incidents - how a single issue can burn through $147K in engineering time before you even implement a fix. The feedback has been eye-opening. Joe Addalia from Hearst Television made a point that stopped me in my tracks: "We spend millions on backup systems because we're a 100% uptime company, but others could save on backup and DR costs if they had a sure way to reduce MTTR." He's absolutely right. The conversation isn't just about troubleshooting costs - it's about risk management. How much of an outage can your organization handle without affecting business? Here's what most people don't realize: When you can detect and diagnose network issues in hours instead of weeks, you fundamentally change your backup and disaster recovery economics. That’s the core idea behind what we do at AlvaLinks – cutting down MTTR through real-time observability. Faster MTTR means you can tolerate brief outages without massive infrastructure investments. The math becomes interesting: • Spend $150K per incident on extended troubleshooting • OR invest in observability that reduces incidents to $6K each • OR over-provision backup systems to avoid incidents entirely The third option has been the industry default, but it's the most expensive long-term strategy. In my article, I break down exactly where those 196 working days (and $147K) disappear during a typical network incident - and how proactive observability changes the economics entirely. Link to the full breakdown in the comments. What's your organization's approach to this MTTR vs. infrastructure investment trade-off? #NetworkObservability #MTTR #DisasterRecovery #ITCosts #OperationalEfficiency

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🤖 AI is rewriting the rules of networking and Ciena is leading the charge with innovations that scale optical capacity to match exploding AI demands! In a powerful conversation with our SVP of Global R&D, Dino DiPerna, we dive into the shift from single-data-center AI to "scale across" distributed training — driving one or two orders of magnitude more WAN capacity. Traditional networks simply can't keep up with this explosion. That's why we're pushing boundaries: ✅ Hyper-Rail photonics unlocking up to 32x density per rack, slashing power and space while lighting hundreds of fiber pairs over long distances. ✅ WaveLogic 6 Extreme — the industry's only shipping 1.6 Tb/s coherent solution, now evolving to 1.6 Tb/s pluggables on 2nm silicon for metro/regional scale. ✅ Full-spectrum coherent lighting entire fiber pairs in one system — simplifying massive deployments. ✅ Vesta 6.4T CPX co-packaged optics bridging XPUs, switching, and optical fabrics with game-changing efficiency. ✅ AI-powered automation via Navigator NCS turning weeks-long turn-ups into hours! From my view in routing and switching, these optical leaps are transformative for coherent routing and IP/optical convergence. Our WaveRouter family — already delivering the world's first 1.6T coherent router — combined with these photonics breakthroughs, enables purpose-built, high-scale architectures that eliminate bottlenecks, reduce power footprints, and support the massive, low-latency fabrics AI clusters require. Service providers and hyperscalers are building the backbone for distributed AI, and our portfolio is purpose-built for it. 💥 The network is becoming the critical fabric connecting distributed AI — are you ready to scale across?What's your biggest hurdle in building AI-ready networks today? Power/space limits? Massive capacity ramps? Automation for speed? Share below 👇 — let's discuss how we're tackling these head-on! 👉 Read the full conversation: https://bit.ly/4swpzcx #AINetworking #CoherentRouting #IPOptical #OpticalNetworking #RoutingAndSwitching #DataCenterAI #NetworkInnovation #FutureOfConnectivity #AIinfrastructure

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A $55 purple LoRa Meshtastic device transformed from a mere gadget into vital mesh network infrastructure, simply by staying powered on in a high-elevation window. I'd heard of Meshtastic as open-source LoRa-based peer-to-peer messaging, off-grid, license-free, and resilient, and its low cost tipped curiosity over skepticism, leading to a stationary router mode setup that quietly boosts local connectivity. Check out Chris Abraham's insightful story: https://lnkd.in/dJnV-it9 #amateurradio #hamradio #engineering #technology #telecommunications #telecom #telecommunication #wireless #wirelesscommunications #antennas #antenna #tower #frequency #frequencies #radiofrequency #transmitter #receiver #broadcast #mesh #LoRa #meshtastic

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