Category: Networking

BT's Full-Fibre Milestone Meets the AI-Driven Enterprise Moment
November 5, 2026

BT's Full-Fibre Milestone Meets the AI-Driven Enterprise Moment

BT Group's 10 million full-fibre connections milestone arrives as enterprises accelerate AI-driven network operations. With 52.3% of decision-makers deploying AI/ML for automated root cause analysis, BT's dual role as connectivity...
Marvell Pays $115 Billion for Lumentum Because the $550 Billion AI Connectivity TAM Runs on Lasers
November 3, 2026

Marvell Pays $115 Billion for Lumentum Because the $550 Billion AI Connectivity TAM Runs on Lasers

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Marvell's $115 billion all-stock acquisition of Lumentum and whether owning the laser layer of AI networking resets the comparison with...
BT's SWAN Completion Reframes Carriers as National Infrastructure Partners
November 2, 2026

BT's SWAN Completion Reframes Carriers as National Infrastructure Partners

BT Group completed Scotland's Wide Area Network programme early, upgrading connectivity at over 5,000 public sector sites and positioning itself as a key infrastructure partner for government digital transformation....
Bdeo Goes Live With Vonage QoD: Network-Aware AI Hits Insurance
October 30, 2026

Bdeo Goes Live With Vonage QoD: Network-Aware AI Hits Insurance

Bdeo deployed Vonage's Quality on Demand Network API across 50+ insurers in 25+ countries, marking one of the world's first enterprise implementations of programmable network prioritization for AI-driven insurance workflows....
Cisco-Validated SONiC NOS Highlights Cisco’s Open Networking Message at OCP
October 29, 2026

Cisco-Validated SONiC NOS Highlights Cisco’s Open Networking Message at OCP

Guy Currier, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Cisco’s SONiC strategy at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, where Cisco hardened Cisco-validated SONiC with Live Protect and validated releases....
Oracle Makes the Supercluster Multi-Silicon at AI World 2026
October 28, 2026

Oracle Makes the Supercluster Multi-Silicon at AI World 2026

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes Oracle's AI World compute deals spanning NVIDIA Vera Rubin at multi-gigawatt scale, Google TPUs, Cerebras, SambaNova, and Intel Diamond Rapids, and what they...
HPE Brings SASE Into Its Network Consoles
October 28, 2026

HPE Brings SASE Into Its Network Consoles

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how HPE's integration of EdgeConnect SASE into HPE Mist and Aruba Central unifies network and security operations,...
Vonage Closes the Omnichannel Gap with Email API Launch
October 28, 2026

Vonage Closes the Omnichannel Gap with Email API Launch

Vonage launched Email API within Vonage Messages on October 27, 2026, completing its omnichannel platform with native failover workflows across five communication channels in a single API call....
Cadence AuraStack
October 23, 2026

Nokia Designs Network Hardware 5x Faster on Cadence's Agentic Supercomputer

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Nokia deploying Cadence's AuraStack AI Super Agent on the Millennium M2000, why the on-premises system sale answers Synopsys Autopilot, and...
HPE Self-Driving Network Comes to the Miami HEAT’s Kaseya Center
October 21, 2026

HPE Self-Driving Network Comes to the Miami HEAT’s Kaseya Center

Tom Hollingsworth, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on HPE’s Kaseya Center win and what an Aruba and Juniper arena deployment says about the self-driving network pitch....
EE Hits 80% 5G+ Coverage: Is AI-RAN the Next Frontier?
October 21, 2026

EE Hits 80% 5G+ Coverage: Is AI-RAN the Next Frontier?

BT Group's EE network reaches 80% UK population with 5G+, while AI-RAN trials and enterprise AI adoption surge, with 52% of enterprises deploying automated root cause analysis....
Ethernet Won't Collapse the Four Enterprise Networks Into One
October 13, 2026

Ethernet Won’t Collapse the Four Enterprise Networks Into One

Futurum's Tom Hollingsworth argues that Ethernet's spread into AI back-end and scale-up fabrics won't merge the enterprise network into one. Network teams fully own only two of four networks and...

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