"Why do you need SD-WAN if it's one hop versus something that can control all the hops?" BT CTO Colin Bannon asked.

With IDC predicting the SD-WAN market will reach $7.5 billion by 2027, SD-WAN remains one of the most important markets in enterprise networking.

Retailers are working to upgrade the Wi-Fi capabilities to keep pace with changing consumer behaviors and expectations. However, IT teams at many retailers have significant work to do to

“Don’t hold your breath on a true success story in which VMware remains unaltered and its own independent entity," Forrester's Tracy Woo predicts.

Dell promise to accelerate how quickly data scientists can access and use their data and rapidly build out critical artificial intelligence and generative AI tools.

Verizon Business is integrating Zebra Technologies devices and software into the carrier’s private 5G and 4G LTE network offering to smooth enterprise adoption.

SDNs at a global scale and free-space optics to the heavens

A company with a specific artificial intelligence use case in mind should consider three aspects: accuracy, latency and cost, AWS GM Atul Deo said.

A. O. Smith — a manufacturer of residential and commercial water heaters, boilers and water treatment products — has gone all in with artificial intelligence-powered RPA.

“A lot of what is being driven today is a fair degree of bespoke and the challenge is that this is not scalable," STL Partners' Yesmean Luk said.

“We are ready to deliver all alternatives that customers want. This is not a religious question for us at all,” CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

Artificial intelligence ignites ideas faster, but automation is the best path to deliver AI. Anything that AI can do, AI and automation can do better.

CFO Scott Herren remains convinced the company will see "a return to order growth" in the latter half of 2024.

The carrier's private 5G network will replace an existing Wi-Fi network at the Norfolk International Terminal.

And more fixed-wireless access traffic is a "good problem to have," CFO Tony Skiadas said.

Energy efficiency gains are real but so are challenges in gaining access to quality data.

Arrcus sets itself apart with a networking-based approach to artificial intelligence, CEO Shekar Ayyar said.

But it's expensive and it needs more spectrum, Chris Sambar said

IPv6 provides a larger pool of IP addresses than IPv4, enabling organizations to connect exponentially more devices and applications to their networks. Though IPv6 does not yet represent the

And open radio access network is coming, "I promise," technology EVP Chris Sambar said.

Its latest success is with Germany’s O2 Telefónica, which is working to lab and field test open radio access network components.

Who wants to manage a network? Apparently fewer enterprises want to do it on their own and are increasingly leaning into managed services.

“The longer this goes on the more painful for the customers and shareholders in the companies,” Dell'Oro Group's Mauricio Sanchez said.

How to decide which private WAN service is right for your organization. SD-WAN, SASE, 5G or something else?