This month marks a milestone with the title’ s first South Pacific cover – Telecom Fiji strengthening Digital Transformation in the country’ s Northern Division with a new high-capacity fibre backbone powered by Ciena.

It’ s a project pitched as closing Fiji’ s digital divide and supporting long-term economic and social resilience.

Telecom Fiji has embarked on an ambitious journey to transform connectivity across the country’ s Northern Division, bringing high-speed, reliable digital access to communities that have historically been underserved.

The ambitious five-year fibre investment plan focuses on creating the foundation for Fiji’ s digital future – with connecting underserved regions throughout the North the cornerstone.

On p14, Mesake Tuinabua, Chief Technology Officer, Telecom Fiji, outlines deploying the Ciena 5184 coherent routing solution as a core component of the fibre network.

Bill Tanner Editor

As automation and agentic AI drive an unprecedented surge in machine identities, Omer Grossman, Chief Trust Officer, CyberArk, says organisations are being forced to rethink identity security governance at scale.

The rapid acceleration of automation across enterprise IT has fundamentally reshaped how identities are created managed and secured.

Each machine or agent requires its own identity and CyberArk research shows that machine identities already outnumber human identities by 82 to 1.

Read on p24 Omer’ s assessment of the impact of this growth on the APAC region as organisations aggressively modernise cloud and DevOps environments.

On p35 Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Telehouse Europe; Sami Slim, CEO, Telehouse France and Takeyuki Yanagisawa, General Manager, Telehouse Business Planning Department, KDDI, outline how data sovereignty is reshaping the design, governance and operation of digital infrastructure across global markets.

A pioneering project led by RIKEN has announced plans to develop software that efficiently integrates quantum computers with supercomputers.

Read on p28 how this initiative is being led by the Quantum High-Performance Computing Collaboration Platform Division at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan.

That’ s just a sample of what’ s inside – enjoy the read.

Have an innovative month.

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