by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 27, 2026 This morning, HPE folded HPE Networking EdgeConnect into both HPE Mist and Aruba Central. The move puts the company’s SASE platform under the same agentic management framework as its wired and wireless portfolios. We see this announcement as significant progress on… Read More »HPE Extends Self-Driving Networking to SASE
Akamai launches AI inference and an agent sandbox in beta. 650 Group sizes the edge POP footprint and security record behind Akamai’s AI infrastructure push.
Cisco’s Partner Summit 2026 WLAN news puts Thousand Eyes test agents inside Wi-Fi 7 and 6E access points, ships a Model Context Protocol server for the networking platform, and schedules post-quantum over-the-air encryption for 2027. 650 Group reads what that means for network operations.
Rambus adopts ChipAgents’ agentic AI platform companywide and invests strategically, betting AI-native workflows speed chip and silicon IP design.
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 21, 2026 This week at GTC Berlin, Nokia announced the next phase of its AI-RAN program with NVIDIA, moving the technology from platform launch into live-network integration. The work builds on the first commercial AI-RAN platform the two companies shipped in July and… Read More »Nokia and NVIDIA Push AI-RAN Into Live Networks
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 19, 2026 This week, Cloudflare announced an expanded partner ecosystem for Cloudflare OS, the company’s AI workspace. The announcement pairs one-click integrations into widely deployed enterprise applications with services teams that stand the platform up for customers. The press release lists new integrations… Read More »Cloudflare OS Adds AI Workspace Partners
Proofpoint is buying Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash — $49.75 a share, a 52% premium — fusing human-and-agent security with data security ahead of a first-half 2027 close.
CoreWeave has brought up multi-rack NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave Cloud, tying hundreds of Rubin GPUs into one scale-out cluster over Spectrum-X Ethernet with 1.6 Tb/s of ConnectX-9 fabric per GPU.
In recent weeks, Cato Networks made clear it is deepening its position in AI security while building on its SASE foundation. The company launched Agentic Threat Prevention, disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the Cursor IDE through its Cato AI Labs, and reported that annualized recurring revenue has now passed $415… Read More »Cato Networks Pivots to Agentic AI Security as ARR Passes $415M
Celona today announced Orion, a new enterprise platform that unifies private 5G, Wi-Fi, public cellular, and satellite into a single wireless fabric designed for AI-native operations. Celona is positioning Orion as its Agentic Converged Wireless Platform, creating a new category that brings together previously separate wireless domains under a unified… Read More »Celona Launches Orion, an Agentic Converged Wireless Platform
