Security firewalls provided by all of the three major cloud providers are still flat-out ineffective.

ZK Research’s Zeus Kerravala said “I do like universal [zero-trust network access]” but added, “I'm not sure how it differs that much from just 'ZTNA.'"

With enhanced NVIDIA support and AI-powered troubleshooting, ONES 3.1 takes network automation and visibility to the next level.

"That's the vision here is to get networks to that level," Amazon Web Services' telecom CTO Ishwar Parulkar said.

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“The general rule that we have from software development teams are, if it can be done twice manually, it's going to get automated," Comcast's Elad Nafshi said.

Arm and Github are integrating their platforms through a new GitHub Copilot extension.

Verizon and T-Mobile US also initiated new connection goals that show continued consumer and enterprise growth expectations.

As valuable as zero-trust network access can be on its own, it’s even more powerful when it’s managed as part of a larger secure access service edge.

“Public cloud is much more expensive, more so than you can ever expect,” Tan said.

Lumen’s investments are geared toward supporting a standing $5 billion in aggregate sales and an additional $7 billion in sales pipeline.

Small vendors will "expect fire-sale acquisitions to larger infrastructure vendors, bankruptcies and radical specialization," Forrester's David Holmes said.

Despite the power of Infiniband, the need for Ethernet remains. To help serve artificial intelligence networking needs Nvidia is pushing Spectrum-X Ethernet.

BGP, the core routing protocol that enables the internet to function, it has inherent security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by bad actors to hijack routes, intercept traffic or

Private 5G progress remains paced for the most successful, poor for others.

Rival AT&T is showing enterprise traction, while Dish Network is pushing off market plans until at least next year.

However, most legacy operators remain averse to moving more of their cloud-based 5G network components to a public cloud environment.

The carrier hinted the Turbo service is the “first step in modernizing and preparing our mobile network for future innovative use cases.”

More is expected of the modern CISO than keeping up with security threats and ensuring patches are made. It’s all about people and communications.

The Kubernetes 1.30 update packs major improvements across core areas like networking, storage, scheduling and code architecture.

Abusing a domain name system query known as NXDOMAIN is a popular distributed denial of service technique. Akamai's new Shield NS53 aims to defend against it.

“Connectivity is critical for success and prosperity in America today," CEO John Stankey said.

“We know that we're the third entrant here, but we’re extremely aggressive," AT&T's John Blinkiewicz said.

CFO Pascal Desroches said the business product will have a narrow scope but continue to adhere to the carrier's financial responsibilities.