Key Developments

In December 2022, T-Mobile, a leading wireless carrier, announced a collaboration with Cisco to launch the world's largest, highly scalable, and distributed nationwide cloud-native converged core gateway. This advancement elevates T-Mobile’s 5G standalone core, enhancing performance by over 10% in speed and latency. The new cloud-native core gateway, which consolidates all of T-Mobile’s 5G and 4G traffic, simplifies operations, allowing for greater agility in resource management and faster rollout of services like 5G Home Internet. It also accelerates the deployment of new 5G and IoT capabilities, such as network slicing and Voice over 5G (VoNR), by enabling rapid testing and scaling of innovations.
In November 2022, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services and consulting firm, partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch a quantum computing lab on the Amazon platform. TCS, which has invested in quantum computing research for over four years, has achieved two patent filings and made significant strides in artificial intelligence (AI), optimization, cryptography, and digital security. The collaboration helps customers explore and co-create innovative quantum computing use cases to tackle business challenges that surpass the capabilities of traditional technologies.
In April 2022, IBM, a global leader in technology and consulting, unveiled the IBM z16, its next-generation system featuring an integrated on-chip artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator for latency-optimized inference. This advanced system is designed to enable clients to analyze real-time transactions at scale, including credit card, healthcare, and financial transactions. Enhancing IBM's renowned security capabilities, the IBM z16 is also engineered to defend against emerging threats that could potentially compromise current encryption technologies.
In March 2022, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a leading provider of cloud solutions, introduced a range of new services and capabilities to enhance customer flexibility. OCI expanded its portfolio with 11 additional computing, networking, and storage services, enabling customers to execute workloads more swiftly and securely while reducing costs. The new offerings include flexible core infrastructure services that automatically optimize resources according to application needs, significantly cutting expenses. Major global organizations, including Vodafone, Samsung Securities, GoTo, and Cox Automotive, utilize OCI for diverse workloads, from micro-services to AI applications.