Expereo's Salim Khouri says the industry is starting to see which use cases the SD-WAN framework fits into, and which it doesn’t.

The move was the first by an Indian operator following the recent conclusion of a nationwide 5G spectrum auction.

Opensignal Analyst Ian Fogg explained that 5G deployment strategies and end results are tied directly to what spectrum operators control.

The multi-vendor project relied heavily on open standards and interfaces to simplify network management.

The equipment vendor purchased Ireland-based systems integrator Aspire Technology, which was founded by former Ericsson engineers.

“It's not about one network function anymore. ... On a 5G network we’re thinking 5G use case security," Deloitte's Shehadi Dayekh explained.

The four vendors dominated segment revenues in the Americas, which was the only global region to post first-quarter growth, according to Dell'Oro Group.

"Security is always a high priority item," Rust Foundation Executive Director Rebecca Rumbul said.

Vendors can also save time and resources as they do not need to “build unique platforms for every single one of their telco users and their customers.”

Rising costs and flat revenue portends a rough four-year stretch for 5G operators, and there’s little to suggest that dynamic will change come soon.

Massive MIMO radios, power amplifiers, baseband process modules, and transceivers are the primary contributors to 5G networks’ power consumption.

Ninety of the Fortune 100 companies are running the NSX platform as their SDN services, VMware SVP Tom Gillis claims.

VP Philippe Poggianti pointed to a significant uptick in spectrum allocation and deployments globally as evidence of its growing presence.

Engineers have been surprisingly successful at putting off co-packaged optics almost indefinitely, Nvidia's Kevin Deierling said.

The new platform is targeted at hyperscalers that need to support high-demand security, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence workloads.

Private networks require specialized industry-specific expertise and present opportunities for all types of players.

Many large enterprises may prefer to buy security service edge and SD-WAN products separately, Gartner's Charlie Winckless said.

An MIT study identified a 13% average quit rate for the enterprise software industry, but analysts credit that trend to the skilled developer shortage.

“Cloud AI is a big differentiator for Juniper right now because we do have a clean foundation to work on,” compared to Cisco and Aruba, Juniper's Bob Friday said.

New threat reports from Trend Micro, McAfee, and Menlo Security put mobile security in sharp focus and indicate that IoT devices and industrial systems are increasingly at risk.

“Enterprises are looking to us, not just for mobility needs, but also for more advanced network solutions that 5G can bring to the table," T-Mobile's John Saw said.

Competing motivations are abundant in open RAN, and most of these groups are shoving the technology in a direction that best serves the goals of those leading the charge.

The scant presence of open source in RAN causes lament among some open RAN proponents.

For every positive associated with low-, mid-, and high-band spectrum, there are just as many negatives.