networking

Six-company collaboration publishes Multipath Reliable Connection 1.0 through the Open Compute Project on May 6 after production use in OpenAI's Blackwell-class supercomputers at Microsoft Fairwater and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Abilene.

Amazon's new managed gateway eliminates the need to make on-premises pod CIDRs routable from a VPC, using leader-elected EC2 nodes, VXLAN tunnels, and Cilium VTEP entries to bridge cloud and on-prem Kubernetes traffic.

AWS moved its cross-cloud private networking service to general availability on April 14, turning a preview into production and a bilateral deal into what analysts are calling a de facto standard.

Equinix has launched Fabric Intelligence, an AI-native operational layer for its 4,400-customer interconnection platform that exposes network provisioning through natural language agents and MCP servers.

SIG Network ships the stable release of its migration tool two weeks before Ingress-NGINX was archived, expanding annotation coverage tenfold and introducing behavioral equivalence testing against live clusters.

Cilium 1.19 introduces beta ztunnel integration for transparent mTLS encryption without sidecars, strict encryption modes for WireGuard and IPsec, and stable Multi Pool IPAM, as the CNCF-graduated eBPF networking project marks a decade of development.

AT&T commits $250 billion through 2030 to expand fiber, 5G, and satellite networks, but analysts question how much is new spending versus relabeled costs.

Qualcomm's FastConnect 8800 doubles Wi-Fi speeds to 11.6 Gbps while a 40-company coalition including Ericsson, Google, and Microsoft formally targets 6G commercialization starting 2029.

Cisco's 3nm G300 switching silicon promises 33% better network utilization and 70% energy savings with liquid cooling, targeting the $600 billion AI infrastructure buildout.