Four interesting items from AI and managed services from three continents:
Enea has landed a traffic management contract with an unnamed government customer in Asia. The deal, worth as much as $1.8M over one year and $1.3M in Q2, will leverage Enea’s Integra Traffic Management platform in the service of “protecting public interest” on mobile networks.
Beyond Now has been busy working with Hrvatski Telekom, a servce provider in Croatia that is part of Deutsche Telekom Group. The two are moving to the next phase of AI usage in the B2B BSS world, specifically targeting AI-based personal assistance, embedded agentic AI, and adoption scross internal tools and workflows. Hrvatski is looking to improve its internal operations with AI at a practical level.
Samsung and KDDI have been putting AI to work in 5G networking. They have trialed Samsung’s AI-powered RAN Speed Optimizer on KDDI’s commercial 5G Standalont network in Japan. The project, which ran for several months starting late last year in and around Tokyo, leveraged 100MHz of 3.7GHz TDD spectrum across hundreds of cells. During peak hours, they achieved a 31% increase in 5G downlink throughput on average, with 52% in dense urban areas.
ValorC3 has launched a new managed service out there to better serve the enterprise community. The data center and cloud service provider now has a Disaster Recovery as a Service solution on tap across its connected Boise ID and St. George UT regions. The DRaaS service protects workloads on the Valor Cloud and the company’s IaaS platform as well as replicating from external environments.
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