Optical illusion: Is co-packaged optics the savior the data center industry has been waiting for?
As demands on data center networks grow, is CPO finally ready to take center stage?
Long Reads - Connectivity
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Free space optics: To the moon and back
Optical communication could transform the space industry, if it can beat the weather
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Flying the Flag for subsea connectivity in the AI era
Flag, the company formerly known as GCX has a new name and is honing in on serving AI data centers
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Connecting the cloud, part II: The network
Outside the data center
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MobileX goes all in on AI as MVNO outlines global ambitions
The US-based MVNO is using AI to forecast the best data plans to meet customers' requirements
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Surfing on the Tube
How TfL is bringing Internet connectivity to the London Underground, one station at a time
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AI ops hit the fairway at the Ryder Cup
The AI-powered future of golf's biggest transatlantic tussle
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Can ILAs unlock the networking bottleneck?
They are very much becoming an important cog in supporting explosive AI-fueled data traffic
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A direct approach to satellite communication
Is the D2D trend bringing innovation to the L-Band by satellite?
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Nvidia wants to reinvent the RAN
All eyes on bringing AI to the RAN for the 6G future
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MWC 2026: AI deluge grips telecoms industry
As Nvidia plays a starring role ahead of AI and 6G future
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Boldyn: London's TfL streetscapes are ideal hosts for providing mobile coverage boost
Crowded rooftops require small cells, says Boldyn Networks CTO
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The profundity and paradox of time
How time keeps modern society – and data centers – in one piece
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MVNOs: A niche or a nuisance?
Mobile virtual network operators are shaking up the telecoms market, but is this at the expense of the mobile operators?
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AI is driving a networking evolution
Providers acknowledge the challenge of running complex systems
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Ethernet is winning the AI supercomputing battle
HPE's Slingshot shows how 'Ethernet plus' beats proprietary interconnects
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Is the telecoms industry ready to wave 2G off into the sunset?
While most use 4G and 5G mobile services, IoT devices have prolonged 2G’s 30-year-plus stay
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2025 telco talking points: AI, fiber frenzy, and an M&A boom
AI is reshaping the telecoms industry, but is it for better or worse?
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Small nation, big vision: Brunei consolidates its way to digital resilience
A digital evolution 25 years in the making
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UK ISPs and altnets on Openreach’s telephone exchange exits
DCD talks to Zen, Netomnia, CityFibre, Neos Networks, and APFN about the UK’s upcoming mass exchange closure
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Copper exchanges in all shapes and sizes
A dive into the history of telephone exchanges in the UK
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BT’s landlord looms large over the UK’s telephone exchanges
What's to become of the UK's old telephone exchanges?
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Copper gets the cold shoulder
The end is nigh amid the global fiber rollout
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The big fightback
Regular attacks against telecoms infrastructure have got network operators fed up
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The US fiber frenzy
Can M&A help US carriers meet their build-out targets?
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Private 5G networks and the Edge opportunity for telcos
Take-up of private 5G networks has been slow, but does the Edge offer an opportunity to change that?
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A stroll down Boston's Meet-me Street
Towardex believes meet-me-vaults can disrupt the data center industry’s hold over cross-connects
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How AWS is connecting the cloud
A look at the networking inside the hyperscaler's data centers