Today’s telecom news includes announcements from NTT Group, MWC Barcelona, SynaXG, Red Hat, OREX SAI, and others.
Photonics Meets AI: NTT Group Gears Up for a Power-Efficient Future at MWC 2026
NTT, along with its subsidiaries NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA, will jointly exhibit at MWC Barcelona 2026, taking place from March 2–5 in Barcelona. This marks the group’s first combined participation at the global telecom event in seven years. The showcase will center on the theme “Photonics Unlocks an Intelligent Power-Optimized Future,” focusing on technologies designed to reduce energy consumption while supporting the growing demands of AI. Key highlights will include IOWN optical network technologies, photonics-electronics convergence, optical quantum computing, and AI-resilient infrastructure. The group will also demonstrate AI-powered services and solutions, including advanced AI platforms, autonomous control technologies, and a new personal AI agent from NTT DOCOMO.
Powering the AI Data Center Boom: OIF Showcases Massive Interoperability at OFC 2026
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) will demonstrate large-scale, multi-vendor interoperability at OFC 2026 in Los Angeles, focusing on next-generation networking technologies for AI-era data centers. The live showcase will involve around 40-member companies and highlight interoperability across high-speed optical and electrical interfaces, including 800ZR, 400ZR, CEI-448G, CEI-224G, co-packaged optics, CMIS and energy-efficient interfaces. The demonstration highlights how open standards can enable higher capacity, improved performance and better energy efficiency to meet the growing demands of AI-driven data center networks.
SynaXG Unveils Groundbreaking AI-Powered 5G Platform
SynaXG, a global innovator in AI‑driven radio access networks, unveiled a milestone in combining artificial intelligence with wireless network operations through its AI‑RAN platform under Project AURA. In collaboration with Red Hat and OREX SAI, the company showcased one of the industry’s earliest unified, cloud‑native platforms capable of running full 5G RAN FR1/FR2 workloads alongside advanced AI tasks on shared commercial hardware. This demonstration highlights how telecom operators can optimize networks with AI, boost performance, and support edge intelligence use cases, unlocking new digital services while improving resource and energy efficiency.
SHAFANA FAZAL