Vodafone plans to extend its use of RDK-B open source software to its European broadband customers in a phased rollout starting in spring 2025. The software is used to manage home broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) and make it easier to launch new services. RDK, short for "reference design kit," is an open source software stack deployed on more than 100 million devices that standardizes core functions used in broadband and video devices. Vodafone believes that by using the technology – which is managed by a consortium – it will be able to introduce new services and applications such as lower latency in several countries at the same time.

CoreWeave has chosen Nokia's IP routing and optical transport technology as part of an extensive backbone buildout, with immediate rollout across its data centers in the US and Europe. Specifically, CoreWeave's IP backbone is being built with the FP5-based Nokia 7750 Service Router, which provides routing scale, 800Gbit/s speeds and improved Ethernet VPN (EVPN) support, along with the Finnish vendor's Service Router Operating System (SROS). CoreWeave is banking on the buildout enabling it to cope with the challenging demands on its network posed by AI and machine learning.

In similar territory, data center connector NL-ix is deploying Nokia's Deepfield Defender anti-DDoS-attack offering across its network. The software detects DDoS using AI-driven data analytics via Nokia's FP5-based routers, which NL-ix is installing across its entire network.

It's game over for fiber flannel: From today all UK broadband providers must offer clarity to consumers on the nature of the fiber connection they are providing as a ruling from Ofcom, Britain's communications regulator, comes into force. According to the Ofcom guidance, providers must give a short description of the technology underpinning their service using "one or two terms that are clear and unambiguous, such as 'cable', 'copper', 'full-fibre' or 'part-fibre'." Using the word "fiber" on its own no longer cuts the mustard, adds the regulator.

Freshwave, a UK-based "connectivity-as-a-service" company, is bringing carrier-grade 4G connectivity from all four major UK mobile network operators to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, UK, through the installation of a distributed antenna system (DAS). It is hoped that the DAS will overcome the problem of connectivity dead spots often caused by the likes of thick concrete or steel walls and floors used in the construction of large public buildings.

Belgium's Proximus is offloading some of the shares it owns in its Indian subsidiary, Route Mobile, to comply with share ownership regulations. It has sold a 6.03% stake in the communications-platform-as-a-service company, bringing its holding to just below 75%. This means it now meets the minimum public shareholding criteria set by the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

Sparkle, the international services arm of Telecom Italia (TIM), has signed a new agreement with Nexim Global for the provision of international IP transit and other IP services. Under the terms of the agreement, Sparkle will provide IP transit at its point of presence (PoP) in Milan, along with DDoS protection and other IP services in Amsterdam and Frankfurt. Nexim Global provides an international backbone infrastructure and a globally distributed content delivery network specializing in media broadcasting and distribution services.