GTT Communications, Inc. is expanding its managed Secure Connect portfolio, with a single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering powered by Fortinet solutions. These enhanced capabilities combine Fortinet’s industry-leading security and secure networking technologies, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), Cloud Access Secure Broker (CASB) and Secure Web Gateway (SWG), with GTT’s award winning Managed SD-WAN and full suite of professional services for real-time visibility and control.

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced that Lumen Technologies has received Wi-Fi 7 certifications for two wireless devices. Lumen is the first company in the industry to achieve a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 7™ device with its custom-developed solution.

Nokia and Rohde & Schwarz, a leading network measurement technology provider announced that the Nokia Drone Networks solution has been certified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This marks the agency’s first full certification of a native 4G/5G drone-in-a-box solution. The achievement represents a significant step in providing US customers a proven, industrial grade 4G/5G drone solution built for reliable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations. Going forward, Nokia will leverage its recently announced US partnerships for private LTE and 5G solutions to accelerate its market entry.

Nokia announced plans to relocate its campus in Murray Hill, NJ to a new state-of-the-art research and development (R&D) facility in the burgeoning innovation and technology hub in New Brunswick, NJ. The new leading-edge R&D facility will propel Nokia Bell Labs to adapt and evolve to remain at the forefront of cutting-edge technology and continue contributing to a legacy of innovation in New Jersey.

Ericsson and AT&T are collaborating in an industry-defining five-year network transformation and digitalization strategic agreement, valued at roughly USD 14 billion, to pioneer the path to programmable and intelligent networks of the future. The deal is the largest financially in Ericsson’s history.

Nokia announced that its AVA Energy Efficiency software, to be delivered in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, has been selected by Globe Telecom to help the Philippine communication service provider drive lower network power consumption and costs.

Swisscom and Nokia announced the successful completion of Swisscom’s nationwide Next Evolution Wavelength Transport Optical Network (NEWTON) and the official start of service migration to the modernized network. Facing high traffic growth and digital transformation, the Nokia optical networking solution equips Switzerland’s largest telecom provider with a service-centric network optimized for high performance, cost efficiency and superior customer experience.

Adtran announced the opening of its new Terafactory in Meiningen, Germany, fortifying supply chain resilience and accelerating regional technological advancements.

Nokia announced a collaboration with Hololight to explore how L4S, a Nokia-invented internet protocol, can enable applications and networks to simultaneously achieve high throughput and low latency in a scalable way. This greatly boosts the performance of real-time applications, particularly cloud-rendered extended reality (XR) services, which depend on very low levels of latency to generate fully immersive experiences.

Nokia is taking a big leap forward in making networks truly autonomous as Nokia Bell Labs announces an industry-first research breakthrough called Natural-Language Networks that will allow networks to be operated through plain speech or text prompts. These networks will understand the intention of users and have the intelligence to act upon them autonomously.