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Enterprise networking has become a lot more complex in recent years, forcing IT teams to spend more time maintaining and troubleshooting than planning or improving — a situation that is becoming unsustainable. Fortunately, increasingly popular network abstraction is a potential solution. It’s not a magic fix, but it does make operations more consistent and easier...

For a decade, the north star was simple for many enterprises: onramp applications and compute to cloud. Centralize services, scale elastically, and connect everything to a few big regions. In the AI era, that’s only half the story. Models, agents, and context now live everywhere on devices, in stores and factories, at colocation providers, and across multiple...

Vendors to Watch 2026 spotlights the technology providers expected to drive some of the most exciting advancements in the telecom sector over the next year. These companies are building solutions that align with the industry’s emerging priorities, from next-generation AI and automation to advanced 5G deployments, cloud-native platforms, cybersecurity, network assurance, IoT, digital identity, data...

This year, the most cutting-edge networking startups have their sights set on AI networking, NaaS, private 5G connectivity and multi-cloud networking.

TMC Announces Recipients of the 2025 Cloud Computing Excellence Awards The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognize the companies, platforms, and solutions that have demonstrated outstanding innovation and measurable success in the delivery of cloud-based technology. Winners were selected based on verified customer deployments and real-world case studies that showcased exceptional performance, scalability, efficiency, and business...

GPT‑5 pushes enterprises to upgrade and secure networks. OpenAI’s GPT‑5 is already changing how enterprises work. More than 600,000 companies are now paying business users of ChatGPT Enterprise, and over 92% of Fortune 500 firms use OpenAI products or APIs, at least in some capacity. A new generation of AI tools is moving rapidly into production, powering...

To realize AI’s full potential, enterprises must modernize their network infrastructure to be cloud-first, elastic, and high-performance.

Artificial intelligence is transforming how AI-driven network operations are managed, monitored, and optimized. Telecommunications providers and enterprise IT teams alike are using AI-driven technologies to reduce downtime, improve network performance, and deliver more resilient services.

Alkira has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to deliver AI integration to customers. It also announced Alkira NIA (Network Infrastructure Assistant). This is an AI co-pilot that enables conversational AI to be used for network management and operations. It allows customers to take advantage of Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini to improve network...

Model context protocol server aims to streamline network operations Alkira has released a model context protocol (MCP) server as part of its Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform. The Alkira MCP Server is integrated into the vendor’s Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) through secure API and authentication controls, alongside Alkira NIA (Network Infrastructure Assistant), an AI copilot that...

Alkira pioneers AI-integrated Network as a Service (NaaS) for the agentic AI era, introducing the MCP server for seamless AI agent interactions and the NIA co-pilot for intelligent network management. These innovations streamline multi-cloud operations, enhance resilience, and support autonomous AI workloads. Alkira’s leadership drives enterprise adoption and future-proof networking.