The Atlantic ocean, long the backbone of global connectivity, is approaching a reckoning. At PTC’26 in Hawaii, hyperscale and wholesale operators sounded alarms: end-of-life systems, static route counts, and exploding …
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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A shameless plug, but mark your diaries – April 28, the Defense Communications Forum, a brand new virtual event from RCR, and a chance for you to hear from industry …
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Where will AI workloads go – when (and if) the big frontier language models, driving all the cap-ex now, finally get ‘trained’ (or sufficiently trained) and inference becomes the new …
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More job cuts in telecoms, and it’s only the second week of January. Network vendor Ericsson is to axe 1,600 staff in Sweden, as widely reported. Network operator Telia will …
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The AI boom is often framed as a story about chips and models, but its most enduring impact may lie elsewhere: in the infrastructure that moves data at scale.
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A quick attempt to join the dots. A discussion today with the ever-reliable Dimitris Mavrakis at ABI Research (ostensibly about Ciena; coverage to follow) covered interesting ground.
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Dean Bubley is on point, as always, and there’s an important lesson in his EchoStar coverage about the value of shared spectrum – which might be considered in light of …
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The decorations have only just come down, and the industry is on the road again, making its first pit stop of the year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in …
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BT’s strategy looks both smaller and bigger at the same time. On the face of it, it is counter-intuitive, and hardly makes sense: to sell off entire foreign operations and …
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Interesting to consider Marvell’s double deals for silicon switching specialist XConn and optical interconnect startup Celestial AI.