Hyperscalers’ subsea investment can help operators to improve services and reach new markets but is also a threat

This article discusses how future hyperscaler investment can enable network operators to improve their services or open up new routes, but explains...

MWC24 showed that transport network operators have an opportunity to support their customers’ use of AI

MWC24 was well-attended by the leading providers of the optic, switching and routing platforms that make up the hidden transport layer behind mobile...

Operators must do more to ensure IP network resilience

IP networks form a critical part of the transport architecture that underpins most of the internet and cloud-based services that societies rely on....

Wireless backhaul vendors must continue to innovate in order to retain market share

Wireless solutions based on microwave and mmWave technologies have dominated the backhaul market in many parts of the world for years. However,...

Ensuring IP network resilience

Operators of IP networks are suffering major network outages, causing loss of customers, loss of revenue and requirement to pay damages. A new...

Telecoms transport network survey: operator investment priorities

Operators’ transport networks are coming under a range of pressures that will change the technologies they invest in and how they build their...

Operators and vendors need to plan for more conservative mobile data growth in the near future

The telecoms industry is fixated on the idea of a constant and dramatic increase in data consumption by cellular network users based on 50–100%...

Scaling to 800G in operator metro core, backbone and DCI networks

This perspective explores the trends that are putting pressure on operators’ transport networks and on their metro core, backbone and data...