The FirstNet initiative was born out of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that showed the need for a unified communications network.

Cisco was named a challenger; Skyhigh Security, Forcepoint and Lookout as "visionaries"; and Broadcom, iBoss and Cloudflare as "niche players."

"We're dealing with legacy Cisco enterprise customers. They're used to buying that hardware and everything upfront," Logicalis' Chris Calvert said.

Ciena expects its WaveRouter platform for converged metro networks will be a significant driver of market share growth.

To fix network issues affecting real-time performance, you have to know what traffic is on the network and where it is traveling to and the underlying application requirements.

A year after being acquired by AMD for $1.9 billion, Pensando's co-founder details progress and the road ahead for DPU-based network innovation.

“We have availability, we are in trials, and are the first ones to do that. Others have announced chips," Cisco's Guru Shenoy said.

“We intend for everybody at AT&to really lean in and to use [artificial intelligence] to do their job better and more effectively,” AT&T's Andy Markus said.

Building hardware-centric network infrastructure is “mundane, costly, and high maintenance,” Netksope's Gerry Plaza said.

Juniper Networks is looking to push even more network management to the cloud, with a little help from artificial intelligence.

Legacy equipment is being replaced with SD-WAN appliances and “causing a relook at the WAN overall,” Gartner's Danielle Young said.

HPE Aruba, Microsoft, and reelyActive are teaming up to offer what's designed to be an automated answer for complicated engineering problems.

The Chinese government in a statement protested the potential move, adding “Huawei accounts for nearly 60% of Germany's 5G network equipment.”

Five decades after it first appeared, it's still not a good idea to bet against Ethernet.

Changes in the world’s networks turned Germany’s Internet peering platform into a global phenomenon

SVP Rob Shore claimed the vendor's indium phosphide fabrication plant sets it apart from optical networking rivals like Ciena.

Since exiting stealth the startup has gained traction with "technology partners that [it] thought might be competitors,” VP Matt Krieg said.

How does a network administrator know for sure if individuals on the network are not violating social media policies on usage?

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, released the latest milestone with the Linux 6.2 kernel. A big part of the new Linux kernel is a long list of networking-related

Remediation is the “toughest nut to crack” when it comes to implementing network automation, CTO Frank Kelly told SDxCentral.

Salad competes in the cloud market with two main advantages: the decentralized nature of its network and low input costs.

The AI revolution needs so much processing power, could it be time to bring in a new generation of chips that combine photonics with conventional silicon?

The mechanism to achieve interoperability is the most important piece "because then you're not trying to solve the entire chain,” OMF's executive director said.

The analyst firm expects component supply improvements will help current backlogs turn into revenue this year.