Your home for exclusive next-gen infrastructure insights

NextGenInfra is your home for exclusive and compelling content on infrastructure technologies. Thought leaders — CxOs, technical leads, and architects — share the latest developments across the topics reshaping how networks and data centers get built and run.

Our coverage spans GenAI/AI/ML, AI data center, telco cloud, optical networking, network-as-a-service (NaaS), edge computing, private wireless, and SASE/SD-WAN/ZTNA. We distill each of these into highly consumable, curated content: short, deep-dive video interviews filmed with the executives driving the technology, backed by succinct research reports with concrete, actionable analysis authored by domain experts.

Our audience is an influential mix of enterprise and service-provider decision-makers — from network engineers and infrastructure architects to CIOs and the office of the CTO — at Fortune 500 companies, hyperscalers, cloud providers, and carriers. We reach them through nextgeninfra.io, an active newsletter and subscriber base, our social channels, and a fast-growing YouTube channel.

What we deliver

Highly consumable, curated, up-to-date content — for the people building the next generation of infrastructure.

A NextGenInfra executive video interview being filmed on location at an industry event.
On the ground — capturing candid executive interviews at the industry’s leading events.

A collaboration between Converge Digest and AvidThink

NextGenInfra is a collaboration between the established Silicon Valley media firm Converge Digest and the research and analyst firm AvidThink. Together we pair frontline industry coverage with independent, rigorous analysis — and bring both to you in video and written form.

Converge Digest provides comprehensive, insightful coverage of the convergence across all layers of the network, including both wireless and optical technologies. Learn more at convergedigest.com.

AvidThink publishes research and analysis on infrastructure technologies. AvidThink also consults for Tier-1 service providers, hyperscalers, and leading infrastructure software and hardware vendors. Learn more at avidthink.com.

Our multi-vendor research reports are independent research — analysis you can trust, not content designed to favor any specific vendor or provider. More content and our full reports are available at nextgeninfra.io.

The founders of AvidThink and Converge Digest.
Roy Chua (AvidThink) and Jim Carroll (Converge Digest).

Watch, read, and get involved

The fastest way to see what we do is to watch. Our YouTube channel is where thought leaders go on the record — candid executive interviews and technology deep dives you won’t find anywhere else. Subscribe to catch new showcases as they drop throughout the year.

If your company is developing solutions in these spaces, our audience wants to hear from you. Sponsors are featured alongside recognized thought leaders, promoted individually to drive traffic to their spotlight page, and given full distribution rights to their professionally produced videos. Reach out and we’ll help you find the right showcase.

Behind the scenes on a NextGenInfra video shoot with an executive interview subject.
Behind the scenes — professionally produced interviews, remote or on-site.