Product Launch

Taipei – October 13, 2026 -- Gemtek Technology, Qualcomm Technologies and gFiber are targeting commercial deployment in 2027 for an AI-native Wi-Fi 8 broadband gateway, with gFiber set to be the first operator to roll it out. Gemtek is showing the device at Network X 2026.

Gateway runs on Qualcomm's Dragonwing NPro A8 Elite platform

Gemtek engineered the gateway on the Qualcomm Dragonwing NPro A8 Elite Platform. It combines Wi-Fi 8 Quad-Band connectivity with Edge AI computing. Software comes from Genix Networks, a Gemtek subsidiary.

The device is designed as a home internet hub and a local platform for agentic AI. It supports network optimization, device awareness, security and proactive management.

Las Vegas – October 13, 2026 -- oneworld has relaunched its dedicated Meetings & Events product, giving event planners preferential fares across the alliance's 15 member airlines and access to a network serving nearly 1,000 destinations.

The product targets groups of at least 50 independently travelling delegates converging on a shared destination. Organisers receive a dedicated booking link that they can send directly to attendees or add to an event website. Delegates book their own flights from their respective departure points and choose journeys that fit their individual schedules.

Roger Blackburn, vice president of Commercial and Loyalty at oneworld, announced the relaunch at IMEX Las Vegas. He said in-person meetings are growing in importance and that the tool is meant to make it easier for organisations to bring people together.

Houston – October 13, 2026 -- Median maintenance backlog across benchmarked plants reached 12.1 weeks against a 2-4 week norm, according to Innovapptive's new Frontline Execution Benchmark 2026, which accompanies the launch of a metric called Frontline Execution Effectiveness (FEE).

FEE is a single score from 0 to 100% that rates how quickly and how well a plant responds to every problem it detects. Innovapptive says it complements Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) rather than replacing it. The benchmark draws on operational walkthroughs of approximately 120 plants and sites across 22 organizations and seven industries.

FEE averages latency and resolution across every valid problem

The score combines two measures. Latency is the share of a problem's closure window the plant kept, from detection to verified closure. Resolution tests whether the fix held, with no repeat failure on the same asset within 90 days.

Lausanne – October 13, 2026 -- Revizto's 5.18 release loads complex models four times faster than version 5.17 and adds Draft Mode, a private workspace for capturing issues and markups across 2D drawings and 3D models before they enter the project record.

Draft Mode keeps review comments private until authors publish them

Users can create issue drafts in 2D or 3D and markup drafts on drawings. They can also privately edit existing issues and their annotations before publishing changes. Drafts auto-save locally and stay private to the author until the author shares them or converts them into a tracked issue. Drafts can be exported to PDF for meetings, and the drawing, model location and project context stay linked throughout.

Paris – October 13, 2026 -- Orange has launched "Reconnexion Flash" in France, a service that moves a household's entire connection to the customer's smartphone hotspot when the fiber line fails. It runs on SoftAtHome's Always'ON software and needs no extra hardware.

Orange activated the service remotely for customers with the latest Wi-Fi 7 gateways, the Livebox 7 Wi-Fi 7 and the Livebox S. No hardware is shipped. Dedicated backup kit such as a 4G dongle or mobile router has been the usual fallback during fiber cuts or maintenance, and Always'ON removes that step.

Livebox detects outages and switches to the smartphone hotspot automatically

The Livebox detects the outage, connects to the smartphone's hotspot and keeps serving the home network. Laptops, tablets, smart TVs and connected devices stay online over Wi-Fi or Ethernet without reconfiguration.

Montreal – October 13, 2026 -- BroadForward's 4G routing (DRA/DEA) and Diameter Firewall are now live in the network of Terrestar Solutions Inc., Canada's only domestically headquartered and controlled mobile satellite operator, enabling mobile and IoT traffic to be routed between terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.

The deployment extends BroadForward's presence in satellite communications. It supports signaling interoperability between Terrestar's Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) infrastructure and national mobile networks.

Terrestar targets the 75% of Canadian landmass without terrestrial coverage

More than 75% of Canada's landmass lacks terrestrial coverage. By routing signaling between satellite and cellular domains, BroadForward's platform lets Terrestar extend coverage in both directions, supporting its aim to bring mobile connectivity to rural and remote communities.

Vienna – October 13, 2026 -- TCL showed its 5G AI CPE X5 at Network X 2026, a home broadband device with a theoretical peak downlink of 7.01 Gbps under 3GPP Release 18 and an agentic AI layer meant to cut operators' operations and maintenance workload.

8Rx antenna design lifts lab downlink throughput by up to 51%

The X5 combines four directional C-band antennas with up to 13 dBi gain and four omnidirectional C-band antennas. In lab testing, this 8Rx architecture delivered up to 51% higher downlink throughput than a 4Rx design. AI analyzes signal quality to help select the antenna configuration for better reception. For indoor Wi-Fi, AI-assisted signal-path selection, congestion detection and channel adjustment aim to keep connections stable.

Stockholm – October 13, 2026 -- Sinch AB has added Rich Communication Services (RCS) to its native integration with SAP Engagement Cloud, giving businesses on the platform a seventh messaging channel alongside SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, LINE, Viber and KakaoTalk.

Marketers can send RCS messages directly from SAP Engagement Cloud

Businesses using SAP Engagement Cloud can now create and send RCS messages to customers globally, where supported, without leaving their existing marketing environment. RCS supports branded and verified senders, rich media and interactive buttons inside the native messaging app on the customer's phone, which SMS cannot offer.

The integration is available only in markets where RCS Business Messaging is supported.

Oslo – October 13, 2026 -- TGS and joint venture partner SLB have announced Pelotas Sul Phase 2, a multi-client 3D survey covering approximately 11,200 square kilometers offshore southern Brazil, with a Ramform Titan-class vessel due to begin acquisition in October 2026.

Ramform Titan-class vessel to finish acquisition in Q2/Q3 2027

Data acquisition is scheduled to run from October 2026 to Q2/Q3 2027. The survey follows Pelotas Sul Phase 1, which was acquired earlier this year, and adds to TGS' 3D seismic coverage in the Pelotas Basin.

Namibia discoveries de-risk the frontier Pelotas Basin

TGS describes the Pelotas Basin as a frontier area that continues to attract industry interest. The basin is supported by geological analogs along the conjugate margin and de-risked by discoveries in Namibia.

Prague – October 13, 2026 -- GFI Software has built Eloquens AI directly into GFI KerioConnect, a mail and collaboration server deployed by more than 30,000 organizations, giving self-hosted mail users an AI email assistant without requiring a move to a third-party cloud.

CEO Eric Vaughan announced the integration in his keynote at ZEBR.AI Roadshow Praha 2026. Prague is in the country where Kerio was founded in 1997. Eloquens AI is an AI email automation platform created in 2024 by GFI's sister company IgniteTech.