SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - Mergers, Acquisitions & Funding, Networking
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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Cisco-backed chiplet interconnect upstart in line for acquisition: report
Early talks with Arm led to nothing, but investors reportedly informed of purchase
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Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth with investments from Nvidia, Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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Cornelis targets inference accelerator utilization with $205M expansion into scale-up
Startup challenges Nvidia and Broadcom with Active Compute Fabric
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Ciena launches VC fund to back next-gen networking startups
$200 million tranche optical interconnect startup
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Canada commits $140M to Xanadu quantum manufacturing project
$643M project aims to build a domestic chip-to-rack supply chain for fault-tolerant quantum computers
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Nvidia secures $500B financing program with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR
Chip giant aims to 'secure capital at attractive rates' for customers
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Nvidia AI interconnect darling bags $136M funding from Arm, others
Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success
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NEC carves out networking resale business
Assist Group to take on Japanese giant's overseas division
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T-Mobile US cut more than 4,500 jobs in 2026 as Deutsche Telekom drives modernization
Vendor's multiple acquisitions consolidated in first half of the year
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Startup bags $10.7M to hit 2.4T space laser transmissions
2-month old EON emerges from stealth in quest to break space optical transmission records and rival undersea cable speeds
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Ex-Aruba CTO unveils optical startup armed with $900M to scale AI interconnectivity
Qualcomm-backed Lumilens debuts at a $5.5 billion valuation, with a mystery hyperscale customer already on board
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Alkira CEO on Lumen deal: Lightning fast acquisition 'made sense' over IPO
Cisco and Viptela veteran Amir Khan also reveals what customers should expect from a more 'wonderful' integration
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Arista Networks patches VeloCloud exploit inherited from Broadcom buy
VCO flaw is in the wild and in need of urgent patching
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Airties acquires India-based Aprecomm as part of geographic, market expansion
Platform differentiation will be maintained
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Rocket Lab launches Iridium satellite acquisition
The move better positions that combination in the rapidly evolving satellite communications space
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Comcast to focus solely on connectivity in media arm spin-out
NBCUniversal and Sky spun off as ex-CFO Michael Angelakis returns to become CEO
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Cisco CEO, CPO confident of AI directional shift, downplay bubble concerns
'I think it's … for me and our business, this is a very simple decision,' CEO Chuck Robbins said.
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AI networking challenger DriveNets secures $410M to propel heterogeneous infra
Strategic backing from AMD sees vendor vying to scale AI fabric inventory and expand solutions designed to maximize utilization
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STL invests $100M in US manufacturing capacity
Indian connectivity maker to expand in the States
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T-Mobile buys struggling rival UScellular, looks to boost private 5G business
UScellular has attempted to stem its consumer connection losses by focusing on the more stable enterprise space