Rockwell Automation announces the initial findings of its 2024 State of Smart Manufacturing in Spain study, based on surveys of 70 Spanish manufacturers. This survey reveals the main challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies for the industry.

Nokia has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA on AI-ready radio access network (RAN) solutions. This partnership, which further enhances Nokia's anyRAN approach, aims to position AI as fundamental to transforming the future of the telecom network business. With AI poised to reshape the telecom infrastructure and services landscape for mobile operators, this collaboration seeks to deliver added value to end users through the introduction of innovative AI services for telecom companies.

Sateliot has successfully established the first 5G service messaging connection using the global network of ground stations owned by Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), the world's leading provider of ground stations as a service.

Sateliot's LEO satellite constellation, which has two units in orbit and will have 250 satellites when deployed, has been integrated with KSAT's (KSATlite) constellation, made up of 27 sites spread around the world, creating a robust system that guarantees the reliability, scalability, low cost and global coverage of Sateliot's narrowband solution.

Nokia has announced the launch of a new power-saving mode called "deep sleep extreme" that utilizes Nokia's next-generation AirScale radio architecture and Reefshark System-on-Chip chipsets. This new solution will be deployed by Orange in the second half of 2024 to improve the energy efficiency of Orange's mobile networks without impacting performance or customer experience.

The Global Certification Forum (GCF) today released its February 2024 Mobile Device Trends report, which includes an analysis of the 503 GCF-certified wireless devices in 2023. These devices came from a record 96 manufacturers worldwide. For the first time, this year’s report shows that wireless modules were the category with the most certified devices in 2023. With modules representing almost 36% of all certified devices, they have now surpassed smartphones, which accounted for 33% of certified devices.

Chinese manufacturers of optical components and modules reached a milestone in 2021: the revenues of the top 10 Chinese suppliers surpassed the sales reported by their Western competitors. This gap widened in 2022-2023 in favor of the Chinese suppliers. Their initial success was facilitated by strong domestic demand for optical products in China, but it was sales of optical products to US-based cloud companies that propelled Innolight and a few other suppliers to new sales records.

Smart devices, autonomous driving, remote patient monitoring... countless new applications are being unlocked thanks to advances in telecommunications technology, specifically the transition to 5G. 5G telecommunications introduces two new frequency bands: sub-6 GHz (3.5 - 7 GHz) and mmWave (24 - 71 GHz).

Nokia has announced the signing of a multi-year cross-patent licensing agreement with vivo. Under the agreement, vivo will pay royalties to Nokia, along with recovery payments to cover the litigation period. The agreement resolves all outstanding patent litigation between the parties in all jurisdictions. The terms of the agreement remain confidential as agreed by the parties.

Vertiv has announced the expansion of its collaboration agreement with Telefónica to improve energy efficiency in key buildings across its backbone and edge networks. Under the agreement, Telefónica expects to save approximately 45 GWh per year over three years, equivalent to the energy consumption of around 13,000 homes. Vertiv will provide a turnkey solution to enable energy savings in various areas of Telefónica's core network sites in Spain.

Nokia, in collaboration with research firm Analysys Mason, revealed today that operators can expect up to 81% cost savings after deploying optical network automation for network and service lifecycle management.
Optical network automation is a key driver for network operators to maximize optimization, efficiency, reliability, and scale, as well as reduce total cost of ownership and monetize assets for revenue generation. This comes amid surges in data traffic from sources such as AR/VR, AI/ML, and IoT, as well as the growing trend toward more programmable optical networks. Despite this, adoption remains slow due to new challenges related to rising operating expenses (OPEX).

Leviton has announced the acquisition of PRISM Data Centre Solutions (DCS) Limited, a manufacturer of network cabinets. Founded in 1996, UK-based PRISM DCS provides an unparalleled service-focused offering that includes consultation, design, manufacturing, and installation of 19" cabinets, hot and cold aisle containment, and security cages for communications networking and data center applications.

The Global Certification Forum (GCF) today announced that it is adding support for satellite communications and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) to its device certification program. With the adoption of standards-based satellite connectivity in the communications industry, manufacturers can certify their devices to connect directly to various satellite operators. This is helping to enable the rapid market introduction of satellite-connected devices with guaranteed interoperability.

Rosenberger strengthens its sales strategy in Europe by signing a distribution agreement with TTI, Inc.-Europe. The agreement covers Rosenberger's product portfolio: RF coaxial connectors, test and measurement products, and cable assemblies for mobile communications networks, data centers, industrial test and measurement, automotive electronics, high-voltage contact systems, medical and industrial electronics, and aerospace engineering. TTI guarantees immediate availability of Rosenberger products for customers in the EMEA region.

A NASA technology experiment on the International Space Station completed its first laser link with an orbiting laser relay system on December 5, 2023. Together, they complete NASA's first end-to-end, bidirectional laser relay system. NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and the space station's new demonstrator, ILLUMA-T (Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal), successfully exchanged data for the first time. LCRD and ILLUMA-T are demonstrating how a user mission, in this case the space station, can benefit from a laser communications relay located in geosynchronous orbit.

The telecommunications ministers of Finland, Estonia, and Sweden emphasized that the resilience of critical submarine infrastructure is now more important than ever. The ministers underscored the importance of robust infrastructure at the Telecommunication Council meeting held in Brussels on December 5, 2023.

In light of recent incidents affecting underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, Finland, Estonia and Sweden invite the Commission to propose measures to improve the safety and robustness of underwater infrastructure in Europe.

Vertiv announced today that subsidiaries of the company have reached a definitive agreement to acquire all shares of CoolTera Ltd. (CoolTera), a provider of coolant distribution infrastructure for liquid cooling technology in data centers, as well as certain assets, including contracts, patents, trademarks and intellectual property, of a CoolTera affiliate.

The chief executives of eight of Europe's leading integrated photonics companies presented Thomas Skordas, Deputy Director General of DG Connect, and Lucilla Sioli, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry at DG Connect, as well as Werner Steinhögl, Sector Head of the Microelectronics and Photonics Unit of the European Commission, with a plan to build a resilient European supply chain for photonic integrated circuits.

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world's largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, announced today that the Sparkplug® 3.0 specification has been published as an International Standard. This publication is the result of a transposition of the specification through the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) transposition process offered by the ISO and IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC 1) for Information Technology, a voluntary, consensus-based international standardization group.

A Japanese consortium of joint research partners, including the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation (NTT EAST) and Fujitsu Limited, has announced that they have built the world's longest transmission link at 1.2 Tbps per optical wavelength and achieved full-performance transmission and the world's highest capacity data transfer at over 1 Tbps using a pair of 1-socket general-purpose servers on October 17, 2023.

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, today announced the results of its 2023 IoT & Edge Developer Survey. Conducted by the Eclipse IoT Working Group and the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, the survey provides critical insights into the IoT and edge computing market, the challenges developers face, and the opportunities for businesses in the open source ecosystem for IoT and edge environments. This technical survey, now in its ninth year, is the most important in the IoT and edge sector.