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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) continues to drive Juniper Networks-derived AI innovation into its enterprise networking stack, a push networking executive Sujai Hajela said is backed by long-standing development that has kept the vendor ahead of heated rivals like Cisco. HPE’s latest push focused on Juniper Networks’ self-driving network resources to now include more AI-driven systems and hardware spread across more of the HPE product and software portfolio.

EchoStar executive Hamid Akhavan has resigned effective immediately, leaving behind several top executive positions within the broader EchoStar operating ecosystem and bringing to a close Akhavan’s leadership that drastically changed EchoStar’s operations. The notification came via a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing tied to EchoStar operating entity Hughes Satellite Systems.

Lumen completed its $475 million acquisition of cloud networking firm Alkira. The company said the deal would accelerate "a more programmable, AI-ready network experience," with CEO Kate Johnson commenting: “AI is reshaping how businesses operate, creating unprecedented demand for intelligent, programmable networks that can move data securely and seamlessly across cloud, edge, and data center environments.

Amazon was granted a conditional waiver from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), waiving the requirement to have half of its Leo satellite constellation in orbit by July 30 after declining a February request by the company to have the deadline extended by two years, and offering a limited waiver instead in June. In the same week, an Amazon Leo VP announced that the constellation will enter commercial service later this year, having previously pledged to enter service mid-2026.

T-Mobile US received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to offload its 800 MHz spectrum to investment firm Grain Management, with possible spoils for the direct-to-device (D2D) market. As reported by Light Reading, T-Mobile US will transfer its 800 MHz licenses to the firm in exchange for $2.9 billion in cash and also Grain's 600 MHz licenses to bolster T-Mobile US' low-band coverage layer.

– NicoElNino/Getty Images Nokia and Italian wholesale fiber vendor FiberCop signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) centered around fiber sensing. The agreement aims to explore fiber sensing for both network protection and environmental monitoring, aiming to turn the network into a distributed sensing system. Through analysis of the optical signal, fiber sensing enables the detection, location and classification of problems in operational contexts.

Researchers claimed to have uncovered what may be the first ransomware attack to be conducted by an AI agent. Dubbed JadePuffer, the agent was used for harvesting and reusing credentials, moving laterally through systems, establishing persistence, and even destroying a database. According to Sysdig, AI agent JadePuffer breached open-source AI app builder LangFlow through a historical API-related vulnerability.

Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has spun off its fiber business. As part of this, Indosat's fiber business has relaunched as Infra Fiber Teknologi (IFT), an independent fiber infrastructure platform backed by Indosat and Arsari Group, an Indonesian-based investment firm. IFT will operate more than 86,000km of fiber infrastructure across Indonesia. This is made up of backbone, domestic subsea, and access networks, as an independently governed, open-access platform.

Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated a nickel-vacancy (NiV⁻) qubit with more than a millisecond of coherence under all-optical control. The study suggests that the diamond-based platform could overcome longstanding trade-offs in spin-photon interfaces for quantum networking.

Data storage systems have been refined over the years to provide a stable platform onto which organizations can dump their prized data assets for future perusal, but AI is changing that dynamic due to the surge in new AI-generated data that needs to be stored, sorted, and primed to feed AI needs, changes that are upending the structure and scale of data platforms and how those platforms are being used.