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[English](https://test4net.com/news) [Русский](https://test4net.com/ru/news) [Հայերեն](https://test4net.com/hy/news) All topics [AI fabrics](https://test4net.com/news#ai-fabrics) [Expert articles](https://test4net.com/news#expert-articles) [Industry](https://test4net.com/news#industry) [New products](https://test4net.com/news#new-products) [Security performance](https://test4net.com/news#security-performance) [Tests and comparisons](https://test4net.com/news#tests-and-comparisons) [Wireless: Wi-Fi and 5G](https://test4net.com/news#wireless) 1. ### [21 Oct 2026 Expert articles Intel tests Wi-Fi 7 with robots across a 2,000 m² office. What a regular lab can borrow from it Lead At DVT Forum 2026 (Wi-Fi NOW report, October 15) Intel described its lab for Wi-Fi 7 and the upcoming Wi-Fi 8. It is not a set of shielded chambers but a floor of about 21,000 sq ft (roughly 1,950 m²) with real cubi… ![](https://test4net.com/hubfs/blog-covers/test4net-news-08.png)](https://test4net.com/blog/intel-wifi-7-robot-testing-real-world-lab?hsLang=en) 2. ### [20 Oct 2026 Tests and comparisons Cloud NGFW: 0% for AWS and Azure, 99.95% for Check Point. Inside the test that produced those numbers The bottom line On September 29, 2026, CyberRatings.org and NSS Labs published the results of a test of nine cloud network firewalls. Four products earned a "Recommended" rating with security effectiveness of 99.7% or hi… ![](https://test4net.com/hubfs/blog-covers/test4net-news-07.png)](https://test4net.com/blog/cloud-ngfw-test-2026-aws-azure-check-point?hsLang=en) 3. ### [19 Oct 2026 Tests and comparisons Lossless Ethernet for AI Fabrics: PFC, LLR or CBFC – Which to Choose and How to Verify It At the OCP Global Summit 2026 (San Jose, October 12–15), Keysight showed two interop demos: Link Layer Retry (LLR) at 1.6T between the INPT-1600GE tester and a switch based on Broadcom Tomahawk 6 (200G SerDes), and LLR p… ![](https://test4net.com/hubfs/blog-covers/test4net-news-04.png)](https://test4net.com/blog/lossless-ethernet-ai-fabrics-pfc-llr-cbfc?hsLang=en) 4. ### [18 Oct 2026 Expert articles Meta at OCP 2026: No AI Fabric Gets Accepted Without Benchmarks on 1000+ GPUs The key takeaway from Meta's post for OCP Global Summit 2026: the hyperscaler does not bring a single segment of its AI network online without a test run. Meta hands its cloud partners a single benchmark suite – point-to… ![](https://test4net.com/hubfs/blog-covers/test4net-news-03.png)](https://test4net.com/blog/meta-ocp-2026-ai-fabric-validation-benchmarks?hsLang=en) 5. ### [17 Oct 2026 Industry Ultra Ethernet 1.1 vs RoCEv2: What Changes in the AI Fabric Transport and How to Test It The bottom line On October 12, 2026, the Ultra Ethernet Consortium published specification 1.1. Sixteen months after version 1.0 (June 11, 2025), the standard moved beyond scale-out into the rack and made congestion cont… ![](https://test4net.com/hubfs/blog-covers/test4net-news-02.png)](https://test4net.com/blog/ultra-ethernet-1-1-vs-rocev2-ai-fabric-transport-testing?hsLang=en) 6. ### [16 Oct 2026 New products Keysight Unveils 1.6T Testers. What It Changes for Teams Running 400G On October 13, 2026, Keysight announced two 1.6T Ethernet testers, the SERT 1600GE and the AresONE Plus 1600GE, and demonstrated them at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose. For most engineers, the headline is not the spee… ![](https://test4net.com/hubfs/blog-covers/test4net-news-01.png)](https://test4net.com/blog/keysight-1-6t-testers-what-changes-for-400g-teams?hsLang=en) 7. ### [08 Sep 2026 Calnex: the clock nobody checks, and the 5-hour outage that proves it Calnex published a piece on timing resilience by Stefano Ruffini, rapporteur of ITU-T SG15 Q13 (Calnex blog, 19 August 2026). The thesis is short: networks encrypt traffic, check certificates and back up links, yet they …](https://test4net.com/blog/calnex-the-clock-nobody-checks-and-the-5-hour-outage-that-proves-it?hsLang=en) 8. ### [08 Sep 2026 Keysight: flowlet balancing evens out AI fabric traffic where ECMP piles it up Keysight published a short lab study on load balancing in AI data-center fabrics (Eric Yu, Keysight blog, 27 May 2026). Short version: the traffic of a training job breaks classic ECMP, and flowlet-based balancing repair…](https://test4net.com/blog/keysight-flowlet-ai-ecmp?hsLang=en) No articles here yet. ## Looking for the long reads? Test reports, methodology and opinion live in the blog. [Open the blog](https://test4net.com/blog?hsLang=en) [![TEST4NET LLC](https://test4net.com/hubfs/test4net-logo-fixed.svg)](https://test4net.com?hsLang=en) Independent testing and validation for telecom, information security and cloud infrastructure – real insights, not assumptions. 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