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  In the previous installments of our look ahead to the trends and technologies that will shape telecommunications in 2026, we looked at how AI-powered Digital Twins and Agentic AI will play key roles in ISPs’ evolution to intelligent autonomous networks. In this installment, we’ll cover autonomous networks themselves and why operators need to make the move from network automation to network autonomy sooner, rather than later. The Rise of Autonomous Networks: Why Telcos Must Evolve Beyond Automation  The telecommunications industry is entering a defining transformation, one that shifts the industry from manual operation and isolated automation efforts toward networks that can sense, decide, act, and continually improve on their own with minimal human intervention. These autonomous networks are no longer a distant vision; they’re a strategic requirement for operators facing unprecedented complexity, increasing cost pressure, and rising customer expectations.  For more than...

    Telecom Trends Outlook 2026 In our first installment of AXON Networks’ preview of the trends and technologies that will drive telecommunications innovation in 2026, we looked at how AI-powered Digital Twins will form the bridge between today’s ever-more complex networks and tomorrow’s fully autonomous networks. A key element of those next-generation Digital Twins will be Agentic AI. In this installment, we’ll take a closer look at how Agentic AI will enable the growth of intelligent networks.   Agentic AI: The Next Evolution of Intelligent Networks For years, the telecom world treated AI like an optional upgrade — a clever add-on to automate tasks, shave a few seconds off workflows, or tidy up the ticket queue. Useful, yes. Transformative, not quite. But a new form of artificial intelligence is arriving, one that behaves less like a tool and more like a team of digital specialists working side-by-side with humans. In the coming year, Agentic AI will become embedded in...

What are the trends and technologies that will drive innovation in the telecommunications and broadband space in 2026? At AXON Networks, we’ve identified six that we think will have the greatest impact as network operators and ISPs continue to explore new ways to innovate, compete and drive the customer experience in the coming year. ●      Digital Twins ●      Agentic AI ●      Autonomous Networks ●      Operator-as-a-Service ●      Real-time Orchestration ●      Self-healing Networks Some of these are emerging solutions, others are the evolving iterations of existing technologies. All of them stand ready to lead the ongoing transformation of the telecommunications industry. Let’s get started.   Where Digital Twins Began — And Where They’re Taking ISPs Next Digital Twins didn’t start as a networking technology buzzword; they started ...

  In Parts 1 and 2 of our Digital Twin education series, we explored why Digital Twins are a critical tool for agile service providers and how, with AXON Networks’ Digital Twin solutions, ISPs can reduce truck rolls and support calls, boost customer satisfaction scores through proactive care, test and deploy new services faster and safer, and meet regulatory speed and quality targets with confidence. In Part 3, we’ll look at real network results that show how ISPs that have enhanced their operations with a Digital Twin solution and proactive AI-driven support via AXON Networks’ Operator-as-a-Service (OaaS) model have transformed their service delivery and customer experience metrics and business results. Truth in numbers Growing network complexity, rising customer expectations, and increasing regulatory requirements are all challenging ISPs to keep pace and to deliver performance and metrics that meet those standards. An OaaS model paired with a Digital Twin solution is already gen...

In Part 1 of our Digital Twin education series, we explored why Digital Twins are a critical tool for agile service providers, providing real-time visibility from the core to the connected home, predictive insights instead of reactive alerts, and integrated automation that allows the network to close the loop to detect, decide, and act on network challenges. How AXON Networks Supports This Evolution At AXON Networks, the Digital Twin isn’t just a concept, it’s a capability. It’s built into our Operator-as-a-Service (OaaS) platform and integrates across every product in our suite of solutions: ·       AXON Orchestrator – our unique software-based network orchestration platform creates a unified, real-time model of the network and serves as the command center for the network’s Digital Twin operations. ·       AXON Realtime – feeds the Digital Twin with continuous telemetry and behavioral analytics from every device and domain, giving the ISP a live...

  The Broadband Networking Challenge: Invisible Complexity In this three-part blog series, we’ll explore why Digital Twins are critical for ISPs, how Digital Twin pioneers like AXON Networks are supporting this evolution, and the results that service providers have seen by implementing AXON Networks’ Digital Twin solutions to deliver smarter, self-optimizing networks.   Let’s start by looking at the case for Digital Twins… Large ISPs today manage multiple networks that can span thousands of miles and often millions of elements connecting everything from home gateways, end user devices, and access nodes to aggregation layers, network backhaul, the network core, and the cloud. Each of these layers generates massive amounts of data all day, every day. For ISPs looking to lead their markets with agility and efficiency, having access to network data is critical to effectively managing these networks. But if that data is fragmented, delayed, or siloed across tools and teams, an ISP ...