Connected Britain 2026 Recap
ConnectedBritain is done, and we are heading home with full notebooks and a long follow-up list.
Two days at Excel London, and what stays with me is not the foot traffic or the demos. It is the quality of the conversations. Network operators came to the stand with real problems: overnight coverage they cannot staff, BGP incidents they found out about from customers, automation projects stuck at 20 percent. Those are the conversations we came for.
Some thank yous are in order.
Paul Berger from Corero Network Security, for being a genuine partner well beyond the booth. David Williams and Weixiao Liu from netElastic, always a pleasure to share a show floor with people who know routing. Ciprian Abaseaca from Inter.link, good neighbours in every sense. Alex Cumparatu and Dumitru Butura, thank you for stopping by and for the honest talks. And Gemma Harvey with the Total Telecom team, who put together an event where operators actually talk to each other instead of just collecting badges.
To everyone who watched HORA work through a fault live on our screen, asked the hard questions, and told us exactly where your operational pain sits: thank you. There were too many of you to name, which is the best problem an exhibitor can have. You know who you are, and you will hear from us this week.
One pattern from both days that I keep thinking about: almost nobody asked us whether AI belongs in network operations anymore. They asked how to introduce it without losing control of changes. That is a different industry than the one we talked to a year ago. Did you notice the same shift at the show?
Next stop for the team is Chisinau, where we are organizing MDNOG 1 in October, Moldova’s first network operators meeting. The conversations continue.
Thank you, London.
