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Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks Announce Strategic Partnership to Fuel AI Adoption and Innovation Among African Businesses Cape Town, South Africa; 28 January 2026  —  Cassava Technologies , a global technology leader of African heritage and  AXON Networks (AXON) , a global leader in intelligent network platforms, today announced a strategic partnership to co-develop, deploy, and manage Africa’s first end-to-end  Operator-as-a-Service (OaaS) platform . A bold step in unlocking Africa’s AI and digital future, customers and service providers will leverage AXON’s AI-ready, real-time, multi-tenant, digital twin-enabled platform across Cassava’s extensive high-speed fibre backbone to connect millions of people and businesses across the continent and unlock new pathways for economic development and innovation. The partnership was announced at  Counder Conference 2026  in Cape Town, South Africa, the flagship event of the Counder visionary leadership n...

Telecom technologies continue to evolve to meet, and even define, the needs of tomorrow’s broadband networks.   In this installment of our look ahead to the trends and technologies that will shape telecommunications in 2026, we’ll look at how real-time network orchestration will become a core element of ISP networks as they address growing complexity, increasing customer demand, and mounting competitive pressure. Real-Time Orchestration: From Automation to Autonomous Control As network complexity accelerates, driven by fiber densification, cloud-native architectures, greater use of multi-vendor infrastructure and edge compute, and increasing AI workloads, traditional orchestration models will no longer be sufficient. At the same time, rising customer expectations for flawless connectivity and regulators raising the bar on network resilience, performance, and transparency are challenging operators to get ahead, and stay ahead, of those expectations by embracing autonomous, data-driv...

  In Our Telecom Trends Outlook 2026 series, we’ve discussed how Digital Twins, Agentic AI and Autonomous Networks will influence telecommunications and broadband network design and management in 2026. Today, we’ll explore a new network operating model that continues to gain traction with forward-thinking operators and will become even more mainstream in the coming months.   Operator-as-a-Service (OaaS): How it will reshape network design, operations and the customer experience in 2026   The telecommunications industry stands on the brink of its most transformative era yet. As networks become more complex, distributed, and software-driven — and as AI, automation, and Digital Twin technologies mature — operators worldwide are recognizing a profound truth: the networks of tomorrow can’t be run with the operating models of yesterday. This reality is amplified by fragmented multi-cloud deployments, unpredictable traffic patterns, and growing operating expense (OPEX) pressure,...

  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...