Network Hardware Supply Chain Issues: Causes, Risks and How to Reduce Delays

Network hardware supply chain issues continue to affect organisations across telecoms, enterprise, and public sector environments. While many expected supply chains to stabilise, the reality is that availability, lead times, and pricing remain unpredictable. Across...

How AI Is Driving Unprecedented Demand on Network Infrastructure

The rapid growth of AI is often framed as a compute challenge. More GPUs. More data centres. More processing power. However, in practice, AI is placing increasing pressure across the entire network stack. From core transport to edge infrastructure, operators are...
Optical Network Hardware Market: UK Growth and Equipment Shortages

Optical Network Hardware Market: UK Growth and Equipment Shortages

Ciena’s $7B Order Backlog Highlights Growing Optical Network Hardware Shortages Optical networking equipment shortages are becoming a growing challenge across the telecom and data centre industries as demand for high-capacity infrastructure continues to accelerate....