Telecommunications Infrastructure

Salt Lake City – September 12, 2026 -- Sorenson has appointed Scott Cederbaum as Head of Marketing, effective August 10, 2026, tasking him with leading the company's global brand, demand generation and customer lifecycle strategy as accessibility technology and AI converge.

Cederbaum joins with two decades of revenue and growth leadership across education, technology and subscription businesses

He most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Blueprint Prep, where he oversaw enterprise-wide revenue strategy, marketing, sales and pricing. Cederbaum has also held CMO and senior growth roles building marketing organizations, running digital transformation initiatives, and using data and analytics to drive customer acquisition and retention.

Colorado Springs, Colo. – September 12, 2026 -- NetAlly has launched LinkRunner 100G, a handheld diagnostic tool priced at $8,999 plus an AllyCare Pro subscription, designed to troubleshoot 100G fiber links now spreading from data centers into enterprise networks.

NetAlly targets a gap left by telco-grade testing tools

CEO Jeff O'Mara said existing tools for validating high-speed fiber links have been expensive and specialized for large telecom providers, leaving enterprise IT teams without an accessible option as 25G, 40G, 50G, and 100G networks become more common. Unlike twisted-pair copper networks up to 10G, which benefit from IEEE-standardized auto-negotiation for speed, power, and polarity, no equivalent automation exists for 100G networks, producing brittle, hard-coded configurations. Proprietary transceivers that modify encodings and bit rates to boost fiber efficiency add further complexity for technicians.

Dallas – September 12, 2026 -- AT&T Chairman and CEO John Stankey will address investors tomorrow at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, reiterating the company's plan to return more than $45 billion to shareholders between 2026 and 2028 through dividends and buybacks.

AT&T added more than 1 million advanced connectivity subscribers in the second quarter

The carrier posted a record quarter for combined fiber and fixed wireless net adds, contributing to faster year-over-year growth in consolidated service revenue and profitability compared with the first quarter of 2026. AT&T said growing numbers of accounts are bundling wireless and home internet services, a trend it points to as evidence its convergence strategy is gaining traction with customers.

Dallas – September 11, 2026 -- BackBox unveiled Kilter AI, a new intelligence layer for its network cyber resilience platform, built on a human-in-the-loop model rather than full autonomy. The company rebranded its platform as Kilter and positioned the AI layer as a decision-support tool for network operations and security (NetSecOps) teams, not a replacement for them.

Vulnerability data spiked 20% in 2025, raising pressure on security teams

More than 48,000 new CVEs were published in 2025, a 20% increase year-over-year, and roughly 60% of breach victims trace incidents to a known, unpatched vulnerability, according to BackBox. The company said attackers can now exploit weaknesses within days rather than months or years, intensifying pressure on understaffed NetSecOps teams managing tools across fragmented environments.

New York – September 11, 2026 -- SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) has promoted Sean Gibbons to Senior Vice President, Chief Product and Technology Officer, placing him on the company's Executive Leadership Team and giving him control over product and technology across both SiriusXM and Pandora.

Gibbons will oversee product strategy, engineering platforms, automotive partnerships and ad tech

Reporting directly to CEO Jennifer Witz, Gibbons takes responsibility for product strategy and development, technology platforms and engineering, automotive and streaming distribution partnerships, and advertising technology. Witz credited him with shaping the rollout of SiriusXM with 360L and cited his more than two decades of tenure and cross-functional track record.

Amsterdam – September 11, 2026 -- NetActuate has launched MoQ Relay, a managed Media over QUIC delivery network that lets broadcasters and streaming platforms publish a live feed once and distribute it to subscribers from relay capacity in more than 45 locations worldwide.

Relay tests show a single feed can multiply reach without added backbone cost

In internal testing across a four-relay setup, one relay delivered sixteen times more video output while drawing the same backbone capacity required to serve a single viewer. NetActuate says this decouples audience size from network cost, a key constraint as satellite capacity used for broadcast distribution is being scaled back globally.

Denver – September 11, 2026 -- Bluepeak, a fiber internet provider operating across six U.S. states, has named Ken Johnson as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective October 19, 2026, succeeding Rich Fish, who is retiring after six years at the helm.

San Jose, California – September 11, 2026 -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) launched cOS SensAI, a vendor-agnostic, software-based intelligence platform designed to unify fragmented network data for broadband operators, with Analysys Mason estimating the addressable market at approximately $2.2 billion annually among Tier 2 and smaller broadband service providers.

SensAI consolidates data from thousands of disparate network sources into a single operational model

The platform builds a continuously updated, real-time model of a provider's operational ecosystem, correlating signals across network devices, tools, applications and customer premise equipment. It aims to replace the manual process of pulling data from a dozen separate systems, a task Hotwire Communications CTO Pragash Pillai described as tedious and time-consuming prior to deployment.

Berlin – September 11, 2026 -- SATELLAI, an AI-driven pet wellness company, deepened its partnership with Deutsche Telekom IoT and Swift Navigation at IFA 2026, combining three technology layers to scale connected pet devices into international markets.

Three companies combine AI, connectivity and positioning layers

The collaboration merges SATELLAI's AI-based pet intelligence, Deutsche Telekom IoT's global connectivity infrastructure, and Swift Navigation's advanced positioning technology. David Teaster, Product Marketing Lead at SATELLAI, said the partnership brings together an intelligence layer, a connectivity layer, and a positioning layer to form the foundation for scalable, connected pet experiences worldwide.

Boca Raton, Fla. – – September 11, 2026 -- Telit Cinterion unveiled an edge AI software development kit that runs machine learning inference directly on the application core of its cellular modules, eliminating the need for a separate AI accelerator chip. The IoT connectivity provider said proof-of-concept testing on image classification and object detection tasks kept CPU consumption at or below 17%, a threshold that avoids thermal throttling of 4G and 5G radio performance.

SDK embeds Google's LiteRT runtime into module firmware set for Q4 2026 release

The kit incorporates LiteRT, the runtime formerly known as TensorFlow Lite, into the Linux-based firmware of upcoming Telit Cinterion AI-enabled module variants spanning 4G, 5G RedCap and high-performance 5G. The company plans to ship the SDK in the fourth quarter of 2026.