"In the last 90 days, everybody wants to get into it because it is revolutionary – it’s going to change the way people can act," Lynk CCO explained.

A blockchain evolution is going to take anodyne use cases being validated within the ecosystem to then “horizontally scale” into wider adoption.

“Many decision makers don’t have the experience to navigate the complexity across the litany of software-defined networking technologies,” GTT's Todd Kiehn said.

The cuts are part of a workforce “rebalancing" that comes on the heels of a robust earnings release and strong full-year guidance.

Daniel Brusilovsky of the Golden State Warriors discussed the buildout and deployment as a budding use case for Wi-Fi 6E.

Agility, business performance, and security now trump cost and network management as top concerns for IT teams, Cisco’s report found.

"I feel like it's been fast and furious," Mary de Wysocki said to describe her transition from Cisco VP of corporate affairs to chief sustainability officer.

“In an ideal world we would not have had to buy Vonage for $6.2 billion to unlock some of the hang up in the system,” Ericsson's Niklas Heuveldop said.

Analysts noted that T-Mobile US’ 5G position will allow it to target new market segments.

A former employee sold products to a Russian entity that was a front for Russian military contractor MMZ Avangard, which is on a U.S. sanction list.

Forrester said to improve security response requires collaboration between the networking and security teams, with “network visibility as the glue.”

In the wireless industry "we’re perpetually inventing new things, and then expecting the public to accept them,” IEEE's David Witkowski said.

"We're bullish on the space and we continue to invest or even accelerate our investments," Cisco's Michael Beesley said.

The Magic Quadrant report also named Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Aruba, and Versa Networks as SD-WAN leaders.

“There is a place for companies only offering standalone SD-WAN, but certainly the opportunities are muted,” Gartner's Jonathan Forest said.

NTT's Sushila Nair warned that organizations with siloed networking and security teams will have trouble moving forward.

The open source, cloud, and digital transformation creates greater demand for highly-skilled developers, Turing found.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me personally … to really shift the paradigm of a networking industry," Nile CEO Pankaj Patel said.

The carrier has now deployed more than 8,000 virtualized radio access network sites.

IT and telecom are the sectors seeing the most growth at around 35% to 40% of the total estimated security market, Research Manager Mohit Shrivastava said.

If product designers don't understand customer perspective, “you're going to end up with all of the problems that we've been seeing in the tech world,” PMDojo Founder Mukherjee said.

“Developed markets need to look to the elderly, low income, and indigenous communities and the physically impaired to ensure that no one is left behind,” Nokia stated.

Sowmyanarayan Sampath said Verizon Business' next goal is to get more enterprises to sign up for its managed packages.

“The lack of effective standalone 5G promotion is a real problem for the future of 5G monetization,” GlobalData's Emma Mohr-McClune wrote.