Ankit Agarwal, Managing Director, STL discusses:

1. How STL Tech feels about being named the Next-gen Data Center Leader at The Fast Mode Awards 2025
2. How STL’s Data Center networking capabilities are addressing the evolving needs of modern hyperscalers and data centers
3. STL Tech’s unique ‘co-creation’ principle
4. How STL Tech empowers customers to grow and take their compute and connectivity offerings to the next level

To learn more, visit www.stl.tech

In this episode of The Fast Mode Podcasts, Tara Neal speaks with Jonas Cedenwing, Founder & CTO of Telness Tech, following the company's win at The Fast Mode Awards 2025. They discuss how:

- Telness Tech’s Seamless OS is redefining the telecom operating model through a cloud-native, modular and agentic architecture

- Why operators need greater flexibility, automation and freedom from fragmented systems, vendor lock-in and manual processes

- How AI-enabled workflows can automate end-to-end journeys, improve customer experience and move operators from reactive to proactive operations

Learn more: www.telnesstech.com

In this episode of The Fast Mode Podcasts, Tara Neal speaks with Sridhar Kuppanna, CEO of ST Engineering iDirect, on how the future of converged 5G-NTN connectivity will be built on standardised, interoperable architectures that enable seamless multi-orbit services.

They also discuss how:

- Satellite is evolving from a niche technology into a fundamental part of the global connectivity ecosystem

- AI and agentic automation will simplify satellite network operations by automating service delivery, predicting network issues and enabling self-healing capabilities

- The industry is shifting towards software-defined, cloud-native and multi-orbit architectures, allowing operators to unify management across GEO, MEO and LEO networks

- Collaboration across the satellite, telecom and cloud ecosystems will be essential to building open, standards-based platforms

To learn more, visit: www.idirect.net

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