VIAVI Perspectives

NTIA recently opened the fourth Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (NOFO 4) with up to $53 million for secure, AI-native RAN architectures. It’s an exciting opportunity, and a complex one to navigate alone. VIAVI partners with you to meet that complexity, strengthening your proposal and moving your innovation to commercialization. A Foundation NTIA Already […]

Notes from the front lines of AI fabric validation, just in time for OCP APAC Summit 2026 Here’s an uncomfortable truth about AI networking: the failures that determine whether a fabric is production-ready rarely appear under normal operating conditions. Training clusters run for months. Collective operations complete successfully. Congestion clears and dashboards stay green....

The use of metadata is nothing new – ancient Egyptians deployed this concept over 2,000 years ago, using descriptive tags to organize and summarize voluminous, hand-written scrolls. In the digital age, metadata has taken on new meaning and significance, as NetOps and SecOps teams seek out more efficient ways to garner valuable insights from an […]

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I’ve been in RF optimization long enough to see it evolve from something very manual and field-heavy into something that is now increasingly driven by data and AI. When I look back, the fundamentals haven’t changed, but the way we approach them has evolved in ways I wouldn’t have imagined back then. I started my […]

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A New Chapter for Network Validation Network testing has always depended on expertise. Whether validating a new data center fabric, benchmarking network equipment, or verifying application performance and security, engineers have traditionally needed deep knowledge of test tools, APIs, and product-specific workflows. As networks become larger and more complex, especially in A...