Vendors introduce tools for the AI + broadband world: Roundup

"Broadcom has announced what it says is the industry's first Wi-FI 8 access point and switch that is built with a unified architecture for AI-ready networks. The platform builds on the company's Wi-Fi 8 radios, which were launched last October, and a new accelerated processing unit chip, the BCM49438. The company says that the new APU is designed to optimize wireless networking and AI acceleration at the enterprise edge."

"The next iteration of Calix One brings the various areas the company serves - appliances, cloud software, AI-powered agents and managed services - into a single unified platform. The company says that the product, which is delivered to broadband service providers through an enterprise digital workforce framework, simplifies agentic-driven business and operations workflow transformations."

"Calix One, which was introduced last October, was architected with Google Cloud. It was designed for broadband providers to operationalize agentic AI securely at scale. It lets AI agents work natively within existing workflows and makes retrofitting of agentic enterprise tools unnecessary."

Broadcom introduced industry-first Wi-Fi 8 access points and switches with unified architecture for AI-ready networks, featuring new accelerated processing unit chip BCM49438 and BCM56390 Trident X3+ Ethernet switch with multiple-gigabit PHY and PoE capabilities. Calix unveiled the next iteration of Calix One, a unified platform integrating appliances, cloud software, AI-powered agents, and managed services for broadband service providers, enabling secure agentic AI operationalization at scale without retrofitting existing workflows. Google Cloud announced enhancements to Cloud Spanner Graph and Vertex AI at Mobile World Congress, introducing network digital twins, unified graph data layer, and real-time prediction capabilities to enable broadband networks to deploy agentic AI more efficiently.

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