Classiq, the leading quantum computing software company, Comcast and AMD today announced the completion of a groundbreaking trial aimed at improving Internet delivery by leveraging quantum algorithms to supercharge network routing resilience.

"What our customers want is simple: fast, secure and reliable connectivity, but when you operate a network as large and dynamic as ours, delivering on that promise is complex, especially in the face of growing network demand," said Elad Nafshi, Chief Network Officer, Comcast Connectivity and Platforms. "We launched these trials with Classiq last year with the goal of understanding how quantum software and technology could tackle real network challenges. Our results have shown that quantum computing for network optimization isn't theoretical - it's practical, scalable, and grounded in the needs of our customers."

D-Link Corporation (TWSE: 2332), a global leader in networking solutions, announced the launch of its DGS-1250 Series Gigabit Smart Managed Switches. Developed to address the growing demand for greater network visibility and control without the cost and complexity of fully managed solutions, the DGS-1250 Series empowers organizations to scale their networks with confidence while maintaining operational simplicity.

Positioned between unmanaged switches and advanced Layer 3 platforms, the DGS-1250 Series delivers a balanced combination of Gigabit performance, enhanced security, and intuitive management. It is designed for businesses seeking to modernize their network infrastructure with smarter capabilities while keeping deployment and ongoing operations efficient and straightforward.

QNAP Systems, Inc. (QNAP), a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator, today introduced the QXG-100G2SF-BCM, a dual-port 100GbE network expansion card. Featuring PCIe Gen 4.0 x16, 200 Gbps total throughput, and advanced offload technologies including RDMA and SR-IOV, the QXG-100G2SF-BCM is engineered to overcome performance bottlenecks in virtualization, data centers, and I/O-intensive applications. When paired with QNAP all-flash NAS, it maximizes storage performance and unleashes new levels of productivity for demanding IT workloads.

"The demand for higher throughput and lower latency continues to grow in enterprise and data center environments," said Sean Teng, Product Manager at QNAP. "With the QXG-100G2SF-BCM, organizations can unlock the full performance of all-flash storage, accelerate virtualization workloads, and scale IT operations with ease."

Positioned at the forefront of wireless technology, MediaTek today introduced the Filogic 8000 family at CES 2026. This groundbreaking suite of products will spearhead the Wi-Fi 8 ecosystem, representing MediaTek's leadership in advancing wireless connectivity. This upcoming technology will deliver ultra-high reliability across a diverse array of product categories, including gateways (broadband gateways, enterprise access points) and client solutions (smartphones, laptops, TVs, streaming devices, tablets, and IoT devices), and will enhance a wide variety of AI-driven products and applications.

As more connected devices are introduced, the wireless environment is becoming crowded and prone to interference, resulting in unstable connections and slow response times. Reliable Wi-Fi performance is essential to ensure seamless operation, and Wi-Fi 8 is engineered specifically to meet these requirements, delivering robust connectivity and low-latency responsiveness for demanding scenarios, many of which leverage AI technologies. Users will also benefit from better bandwidth, improved power efficiency and optimized connectivity, all leading to a superior user experience.

D-Link Corporation, a global leader in networking and connectivity solutions, announced the launch of Nuclias Unity, a next-generation license-free cloud network management platform. Purpose-built for organizations ranging from SMBs to large, multi-site enterprises, Nuclias Unity delivers unified control, simplified operations, and enterprise-grade reliability—without the traditional cost and complexity of licensed cloud platforms.

Backed by D-Link's decades of networking expertise, Nuclias Unity empowers IT teams to manage wired and wireless networks through a unified cloud management platform, accelerating cloud adoption while ensuring visibility, consistency, and operational efficiency across all business environments.

Enterprises, cloud providers, and research organizations need AI infrastructure that delivers results fast, not just parts to assemble. Today, AMD is introducing AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC-Ready Server Platforms: a growing ecosystem of server systems from leading partners that come preconfigured with the AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI Network Interface Card to deliver high-performance, Ethernet-based AI networking out of the box for both the front-end and back-end. By combining proven server designs, powerful AMD compute, and Pollara 400's fully programmable 400G Ethernet, these platforms help organizations stand up scalable AI clusters faster and with greater confidence.

AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC-Ready Server Platforms brings together servers from leading partners with the AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC to easily power the communication cycles required for the unique demand of AI workloads. These platforms give customers a consistent AI networking foundation across a broad ecosystem of server designs. Partners can offer dense GPU training nodes, high-throughput inference servers, that can often combine AMD EPYC Server CPUs, AMD Instinct GPU accelerators, and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC-based Ethernet fabrics. Unlike other AI NICs, the AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC is fully hardware and software programmable, meaning the AI NIC can be updated without a hardware overhaul as transport and congestion-control algorithms evolve. This flexibility allows the same server platform to be tuned over time for new AI workloads, updated business priorities, and topologies.

As cloud workloads continue to grow in complexity and scale, organizations face a persistent challenge: how to simultaneously deliver faster performance, lower costs, and meet sustainability commitments. Traditional approaches often force trade-offs, leaving you to choose between speed and efficiency. To address this need, today we are introducing Graviton5 processors—AWS's most advanced custom chip to date for a broad set of cloud workloads. Graviton5 delivers up to 25% better compute performance than the previous generation while maintaining leading energy efficiency, enabling you to run applications faster, reduce costs, and meet sustainability goals.

Graviton5 delivers measurable business impact
Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances enable you to process information more efficiently with the highest CPU core density available in Amazon EC2—192 cores in a single package. This efficient design reduces the distance data must travel between cores, cutting inter-core communication latency by up to 33% while increasing bandwidth. Demanding workloads like real-time gaming, high-performance databases, big data analytics, application servers, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) can now scale up with faster data exchange between processing cores.

Back in July, Intel was considering spinning off its Networking and Edge Group (NEX). However, Intel has changed its mind about selling NEX and decided to keep the unit within the company. "After a thorough review of strategic options for NEX—including a potential standalone path—we determined the business is best positioned to succeed within Intel," said the company in an email exchange for Bloomberg, adding that "Keeping NEX in-house enables tighter integration between silicon, software and systems, strengthening customer offerings across AI, data center, and edge."

It looks like Intel will increase investment in the NEX unit and prepare it for the scale that spans various forms of AI data centers and edge processing. In early November, Intel's chief technology and AI officer, senior vice president, and general manager of the Network and Edge Group (NEX)—Sachin Katti—left the company to join OpenAI. He was originally the one to send an internal company memo about the NEX group spinoff, so his departure possibly put an end to the effort to divest from NEX.

Today, AMD announced an expanded collaboration with HPE to accelerate the next generation of open, scalable AI infrastructure built on AMD leadership compute technologies. HPE will become one of the first system providers to adopt the AMD "Helios" rack-scale AI architecture, which will integrate a purpose-built HPE Juniper Networking scale-up switch - in collaboration with Broadcom - and software for seamless, high-bandwidth connectivity over Ethernet. "Helios" combines AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Instinct GPUs, AMD Pensando advanced networking and the AMD ROCm open software stack to deliver a cohesive platform optimized for performance, efficiency, and scalability. The system is engineered to simplify deployment of large-scale AI clusters, enabling faster time to solution and greater infrastructure flexibility across research, cloud, and enterprise environments.

"HPE has been an exceptional long-term partner to AMD, working with us to redefine what is possible in high-performance computing," said Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD. "With 'Helios', we're taking that collaboration further, bringing together the full stack of AMD compute technologies and HPE's system innovation to deliver an open, rack-scale AI platform that drives new levels of efficiency, scalability, and breakthrough performance for our customers in the AI era."

D-Link (TWSE: 2332), a global leader in networking and connectivity solutions, today launches the DAP-X3060W AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 Wall-Plate Access Point, a compact in-room solution designed for hospitality, education, enterprise, and multi-dwelling environments. Its discreet wall-mounted form factor fits standard junction boxes, delivering high-speed connectivity directly to guest rooms, classrooms, offices, and individual living units while supporting both wireless and wired endpoints such as smart TVs, IP phones, and PCs through integrated PoE and multiple Gigabit LAN ports.

Powered by Wi-Fi 6 with dual-band AX3000 throughput, OFDMA, and MU-MIMO, the DAP-X3060W ensures smoother streaming, lower latency, and consistent performance in high-density environments. Built with D-Link's MIT-quality engineering and secure, intelligent design, it provides a scalable foundation for modern smart spaces. When paired with D-Link Nuclias Network Controller, organizations can simplify deployment and achieve centralized management across entire properties, fulfilling D-Link's commitment to enabling intelligent connectivity for the next generation of digital environments.

Amazon has shared new hardware and service details for its Leo satellite network (formerly Project Kuiper) as it gets closer to commercial launch. With more than 150 satellites now in orbit, Amazon is launching an enterprise preview program for select customers ahead of a broader rollout in 2026. The highlight is Leo Ultra, Amazon's new enterprise-grade user terminal. The flat-panel phased-array antenna delivers up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload, making it the fastest production terminal Amazon has announced. The unit uses custom Amazon silicon and RF processing to reduce latency and support full-duplex operation. The design has no moving parts and is built to handle extreme weather.

Besides Leo Ultra, Amazon will offer two lower service tiers: Leo Nano uses a compact 7-inch antenna delivering download speeds up to 100 Mbps, while Leo Pro uses a standard 11-inch antenna supporting speeds up to 400 Mbps. Amazon is positioning Leo for organizations that operate beyond the reach of terrestrial connectivity, including industrial, government, and remote operations environments. The service supports network management tools, end-to-end encryption and priority support. It also integrates directly with AWS and other private networks bypassing traffic over the public internet.

Today, IBM and Cisco announced an intention to collaborate on the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realized as soon as the early 2030s. By combining IBM's leadership in building useful quantum computers with Cisco's quantum networking innovations, the companies plan to explore how to scale large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers beyond IBM's ambitious roadmap. Additionally, they will work to solve fundamental challenges towards a quantum computing internet.

Within five years, IBM and Cisco will aim to demonstrate the first proof-of-concept for a network that combines individual, large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, enabling them to work together to run computations over tens to hundreds of thousands of qubits. This network would allow problems to be run with potentially trillions of quantum gates, the fundamental entangling operations required for transformative quantum applications such as massive optimization problems, or the design of complex materials and medicines.

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), a global leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced the availability of the Brocade X8 Directors and Brocade G820 56-port switch, the industry's first 128G Fiber Channel platforms designed for today's mission-critical workloads and enterprise AI applications. Brocade Gen 8 Fiber Channel safeguards storage for the quantum era and automates infrastructure management through embedded SAN AI technology.

"Brocade has been the trusted leader in Fiber Channel for more than 30 years. Our new Gen 8 Fiber Channel platforms advance the enterprise storage industry by securing storage networks against emerging quantum-era threats and by utilizing embedded SAN AI technology to automate application infrastructure management," said Dennis Makishima, vice president and general manager, Brocade Storage Networking, Broadcom. "These new 128G platforms establish a robust foundation for mission-critical and enterprise AI workloads."

The Connectivity Standards Alliance announced today the release of Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi, the new brand for Zigbee's Sub-GHz feature, two major milestones in advancing the foundation of secure, interoperable, and scalable IoT connectivity with a range of optional features, enabling product manufacturers to choose the specific set that best fits their product's use case and needs. Together, these innovations mark the next evolution of Zigbee technology, building on decades of proven performance to deliver greater range, reliability, and security across global networks.

Strengthening Security, Range, and Interoperability
Zigbee 4.0 lays the groundwork for harmonizing traditional Zigbee and Smart Energy devices, delivering greater interoperability across universal networks. This release simplifies certification processes and supports enhanced information exchange, creating a more complete smart home solution. Comprehensive and proactive security updates aligned with evolving international security standards implement cryptographic agility and additional mechanisms to protect the network. Extending its capabilities beyond the 2.4 GHz band, Zigbee 4.0 introduces support for the European 800 MHz and North American 900 MHz PHY, providing increased signal strength, range, and coverage. Fully backward compatible with Zigbee 3.0 and Smart Energy, it ensures continuity with more than a billion Zigbee devices already deployed worldwide while introducing improvements to network stability, user experience, and device commissioning in dense networks.

Panmnesia, a pioneer in AI infrastructure link solutions, announced sample availability of its PCIe 6.0/CXL 3.2 Fabric Switch—the industry's first CXL switch silicon supporting port-based routing (PBR). The company is currently in the process of providing switch silicon samples to early access partners.

Panmnesia's switch is a hybrid solution that supports both PCIe Gen 6 and CXL 3.2 protocols on a single chip, while maintaining full backward compatibility with all previous PCIe and CXL generations. Fully implemented in strict accordance with the CXL 3.2/PCIe 6.0 specifications, it ensures complete standards compliance and seamless interoperability across all subprotocols. The switch can also operate in PBR mode and hierarchy-based routing (HBR) mode.

D-Link (TWSE: 2332), a global leader in networking and connectivity solutions proudly announces its new BE9500 Wi-Fi 7 Ceiling Mount Access Point, engineered to deliver blazing wireless performance, ultra-low latency, and resilient connectivity in demanding environments. As organizations pursue digital transformation, hybrid work, and immersive learning experiences, the DAP-E9560 is designed to elevate exceptional online experience and to meet the next generation of connectivity needs with ease.

D-Link's comprehensive product portfolio equips enterprises for the demands of the intelligent era. Its networking solutions are designed to proactively safeguard against vulnerabilities and provide the scalable foundation IT teams need to drive growth. This commitment to innovative, integrated, and sustainably designed networking enables businesses to accelerate their digital transformation with resilience and confidence.

Sony announced that its PlayStation 5 has sold over 84.2 million units worldwide, as revealed in the company's second-quarter 2025 results. The company reported shipping 3.9 million units during the quarter, describing this as steady momentum for its flagship hardware as it approaches its fourth year on the market. This shipment figure marks a slight year-over-year increase from the 3.8 million units shipped in the same period last year, continuing a trend of modest gains throughout the current fiscal year. As these gains gradually accumulate, Sony's hardware market continues to expand, providing the company with the incentive to invest in next-generation console development.

Sony emphasized that consumer interest in the PS5 remains strong even as the platform matures and expressed expectations for a larger sales increase next year, linked to the delayed release of Grand Theft Auto VI, now scheduled for November 2026. Sony's exclusive content strategy also showed promise with Ghost of Yotei, which launched after the quarter ended and has already sold approximately 3.3 million copies. However, not all metrics were positive. PlayStation Network's monthly active users dropped to 119 million from 123 million in the previous quarter, indicating a decline in engagement. This decrease was offset by strong software performance, as first-party title sales rose by about one million copies year over year.

With wireless spectrum being limited, a row has begun in the EU over the upper frequenices in the 6 GHz band (6425 to 7125 MHz) between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) on one side and the mobile operators on the other side. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the DSA has penned an open letter to the EU digital ministers to try and sway their minds, after the German government has changed its position on the question in favour of the mobile operators ahead of a vote by the EU's Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG). Currently, the 6 GHz Wi-Fi spectrum in the EU is limited to use the channels between 5945 MHz and 6425 MHz—this falls within the U-NII-5 band based on the FCC classification—which is a total of 12 usable 40 MHz channel groups. However, this only equates to three 160 MHz or two overlapping 320 MHz channel groups, which means that it's very crowded for anyone with a high-end router that wants to use it at its full potential. With Wi-Fi 6E/7 devices relying heavily on 160 and 320 MHz channel groups to deliver the claimed speed advantages they offer over older Wi-Fi standards, this far from ideal, even though the FCC U-NII bands still limits things, consumers have access to seven 160 MHz and three 320 MHz channel groups, of which none are overlapping, although technically there are six overlapping 320 MHz channel groups in the US and Canada.

On top of everything else, the EU has strict transmit power limitations and consumer 6 GHz Wi-Fi routers can only be used indoors based on current regulations, which limits the range these devices can transmit the signal to such a degree that it's unlike you would be able to use the 6 GHz band more than a room or two away from your router. It's hard to see that consumer Wi-Fi routers with such limited transmit power can interfere in any way with cellular infrastructure that transmits at much higher power. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the DSA are arguing that if the EU votes in favour of the mobile operators, there might not be enough available Wi-Fi channels in the 6 GHz in the EU, which might be true for businesses and other types of venues, but due to the short range of consumer 6 GHz devices in the EU, it's unlikely to affect most consumers to a huge degree. On the other hand, for exact the same reason, it doesn't make sense to make the upper 6 GHz band exclusive to the mobile operators, as they have already been assigned spectrum in a wide range of different frequency ranges that offers better speeds and range. Hopefully the rest of the EU won't agree with Germany on this issue, as the EU is already very limiting when it comes to available Wi-Fi spectrum and doesn't need further limits imposed on what is already a heavily crippled standard compared to many other parts of the world. The RSPG will vote on the matter on November 12.

Ookla, a global leader in connectivity intelligence, today unveiled Speedtest Pulse, a new network diagnostic device designed to provide definitive, smartphone-based validation and troubleshooting for internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprises. Leveraging the power of Speedtest, a globally trusted gold standard for connectivity measurement, Speedtest Pulse bridges a crucial gap in technician toolkits, offering a powerful, scalable solution that is easy to use and provides clear, actionable insights.

The launch comes at a pivotal inflection point for the industry. Wi-Fi is no longer a commodity; it is critical infrastructure for modern homes and businesses. It serves as the primary lens through which customers judge their internet service and is the essential backbone of enterprise productivity. With the explosion of connected devices and the rise of complex Wi-Fi only networks, ensuring a high-quality, consistent experience has become a major operational challenge, especially for large enterprises managing hundreds of sites. For ISPs, verifying network performance at the time of install and quickly troubleshooting issues are vital to improving customer satisfaction and reducing support costs.

Microsoft Azure is experiencing its first major outage in a while. Around 16:00 UTC, the Azure cloud platform encountered issues that have disrupted numerous Microsoft services and some third-party companies relying on Azure. Affected Microsoft services include the entire Xbox platform, Minecraft, and the Microsoft 365 suite, which encompasses web-based Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Defender, OneDrive, Designer, Clipchamp, and SharePoint. These services have faced outages, causing some to become completely unavailable. As of our latest testing, Microsoft has restored the 365 services, with only third-party services using Azure Networking infrastructure still experiencing downtime.

MicrosoftStarting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue. We are taking several concurrent actions: Firstly, where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services, this includes customer configuration changes as well. At the same time, we are rolling back our AFD configuration to our last known good state. As we rollback we want to ensure that the problematic configuration doesn't re-initiate upon recovery... We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed, but we will update this communication within 30 minutes or when we have an update. This message was last updated at 17:40 UTC on 29 October 2025

Inseego Corp., a global leader in 5G mobile broadband and 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) solutions, today introduced a new approach to enterprise FWA with a completely new 5G hardware platform, the Inseego Wavemaker FX4200, and updated software suite, Inseego Connect. Designed to bridge the gap between performance and ease-of-use for enterprise wireless networks, this innovative approach to FWA pairs the power and functionality of enterprise network solutions with the simplicity and ease-of-management of small- and medium-sized (SMB)-oriented solutions.

"In order to take advantage of the power of 5G for business, organizations have been forced to choose between feature-heavy solutions that can be complicated and expensive to deploy, and simplistic products that can't scale or meet business needs," said Juho Sarvikas, CEO of Inseego. "With the FX4200, X700 mesh Wi-Fi, and the innovative Inseego Connect software, we're eliminating that tradeoff. We've built the solution that the market has been asking for, and it will propel growth in FWA and 5G use in business."

AI factories continue to grow at unprecedented scale, processing structured, unstructured and emerging AI-native data. With demand for trillion-token workloads exploding, a new class of infrastructure is required to keep pace. At NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C, NVIDIA revealed the NVIDIA BlueField-4 data processing unit, part of the full-stack BlueField platform that accelerates gigascale AI infrastructure, delivering massive computing performance, supporting 800 Gb/s of throughput and enabling high-performance inference processing.

Powered by software-defined acceleration across AI data storage, networking and security, NVIDIA BlueField-4 transforms data centers into secure, intelligent AI infrastructure—designed to accelerate every workload, in every AI factory. It's purpose-built as the end-to-end engine for a new class of AI storage platforms, bringing AI data storage acceleration to the foundation of AI data pipelines for efficient data processing and breakthrough performance at scale.

TerraMaster proudly launches the F4-425 Plus and F2-425 Plus series, two hybrid Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices designed for tech enthusiasts, small businesses, and home users. The F4-425 Plus features a pioneering 3+4 bay design, while the F2-425 Plus offers a 3+2 bay configuration for entry-level expansion. Both are equipped with dual 5GbE high-speed networking, three M.2 SSD slots, AI-driven privacy protection, and hybrid storage capacities of up to 144 TB/84 TB. These two products set a new benchmark in the NAS market with outstanding performance, top-tier security, and versatile applications. Combined with TerraMaster OS 6 (TOS 6) software and the Business Backup Suite (BBS), they provide seamless management and comprehensive data protection.

Powerful Performance and Scalability
The F4-425 Plus and F2-425 Plus are powered by Intel N150 quad-core processor (up to 3.6 GHz), 16 GB/8 GB DDR5 memory, and dual 5GbE network interfaces, achieving transfer speeds of up to 1010 MB/s to handle high-demand data processing with ease.

D-Link Corporation (TWSE: 2332), one of the global leaders in networking solutions, today announced the launch of its next-generation Nuclias Network Controllers—DNH-1000, DNH-3000, and DNC-5000. Engineered for businesses of all sizes, these controllers offer centralized management, real-time visibility, and scalable deployment capabilities. Whether for a single-site retail outlet or a large-scale, multi-site enterprise, Nuclias enables organizations to build high-performance, secure, and unified wired and wireless networks with ease.

Solving IT Challenges with Centralized Control
As businesses networks expand across distributed locations, IT teams face fragmented tools, limited visibility, and rising security risks. The Nuclias Network Controllers consolidate operations into a single platform—reducing complexity and streamlining network maintenance while empowering IT teams through tiered admin access, automated optimization, and proactive monitoring without adding headcount.

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), a global leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced Thor Ultra, the industry's first 800G AI Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), capable of interconnecting hundreds of thousands of XPUs to drive trillion-parameter AI workloads. By adopting the open Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) specification, Thor Ultra gives customers the ability to scale AI workloads with unparalleled performance, and efficiency in an open ecosystem.

"Thor Ultra delivers on the vision of Ultra Ethernet Consortium for modernizing RDMA for large AI clusters," said Ram Velaga, senior vice president and general manager of the Core Switching Group at Broadcom. "Designed from the ground up, Thor Ultra is the industry's first 800G Ethernet NIC and is fully feature compliant with UEC specification. We are grateful to our customers for their partnership and to our exceptional engineering team for the product innovation."