This Week's Top Five Stories in the Telco Industry
Enterprise customers sometimes do not notice network monitoring tools until something breaks.
Deutsche Telekom is betting that stronger observability and AI-led automation can keep those problems out of sight altogether as it expands its partnership with LogicMonitor across Europe.
LogicMonitor, which describes itself as an AI-first platform for Autonomous IT, is now available through Deutsche Telekom’s managed services portfolio in selected European markets including DACH, Benelux and the Nordics.
NTT DATA Expands Microsoft AI Footprint with WinWire Deal
AI acquisitions often begin in Silicon Valley, but their influence reaches industries across the global economy.
For telco operators racing to modernise networks and build new enterprise services, supplier partnerships around cloud and AI increasingly shape the technology stack sitting underneath the industry.
That is the backdrop to NTT DATA’s agreement to acquire Microsoft specialist WinWire, in a move that expands the company’s AI and Azure capabilities.
BT Business: Boosting AI Deployment with Accenture
BT Business has entered a multi-year agreement with Accenture to deploy AI capabilities for UK businesses and public sector organisations.
The programme is set to combine Accenture's service management experience with BT's network intelligence and customer data platforms, and will build on the latter's existing relationship with ServiceNow, which operates as its core service management platform.
ServiceNow will provide what it describes as an AI control tower for the initiative.
Ericsson and Telstra: Advancing 6G Research and Innovation
If 5G was about speed, 6G is shaping up to be about intelligence.
That is the message behind a new agreement between Telstra and Ericsson as the pair move to deepen collaboration on the technologies expected to define the next era of mobile connectivity.
The companies have signed a letter of intent focused on 6G research and trials, with work spanning standards development, testing environments and AI-native network capabilities.
How Nokia’s AI Networking Lab Prepares Telcos for AI Demands
AI puts networks under pressure in places most users never see. Behind every chatbot prompt and automated business tool sits a data centre network that now needs to move huge amounts of information with speed and precision.
Nokia wants to position itself in the middle of that transformation.
The vendor has launched a new AI Networking Innovation Lab in Sunnyvale, California, which is aimed at helping operators, hyperscalers and cloud companies test how AI infrastructure behaves under real-world conditions.
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