"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.

The vendor's Telecom Infrastructure Blocks are a cloud-native package of services designed to meet specific telecom workloads and use cases

The vendor's Private Wireless-as-a-Service product takes advantage of its partner ecosystem and the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum.

The market surged despite an expected slowdown due to supply chain issues, the Russia-Ukraine war, and an “environment of macro-economic angst.”

The technology will include increased reliance on distributed cloud and edge computing resources, and a further push up the spectrum scale.

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

The “most glaring” issue with VPNs is the level of security they provide, Enterprise Strategy Group's John Grady said.

The speed updates are due "to a virtualized architecture that we have been working on for the past several years now,” Comcast's Elad Nafshi said.

"Carbon neutral is not the end goal," a Zscaler spokesperson said.

Dell'Oro Group noted the vendors powered different segments of the wireless LAN market to record heights in the second quarter.

“The more contextually aware that we can be, the more secure we can be," MetTel CTO Eddie Fox said.

Customers need to focus on their problems and not get distracted by how vendors market solutions, Lookout CTO Sundaram Lakshmanan said.

Those learnings are being combined into Akamai's Linode acquisition to attract Fortune 500 companies.

The virtual machine option is for customers that don't want to deal with bare metal or if they have different server size or compute size requirements.

“It looks to be more of a beta launch than a full commercial launch,” IDC's Daryl Schoolar said.

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

European-based telecom operators have continually voiced the need for tech and cloud giants to help pay for the underlying networks.

"Working with silicon vendors like Broadcom to accelerate our SDN, to accelerate the security capabilities, that's extremely interesting,” VMware's Tom Gillis said.

Headwinds are led by “the lack of 5G business cases beyond enhanced mobile broadband combined with some network architecture issues,” the firm noted.

“As the second and third iterations of SD-WAN come around, we want to be part of that conversation in a meaningful way," Telstra America's Noah Drake said.

The platform provides enterprises with the ability to better control the quality of their SD-WAN connections.

There has been “a big shift in ethos” in U.S. policy toward licensing of standard-essential patents, CCS Insights CEO Geoff Blaber explains.

The research firm notes that telecom operators currently lack business models that allow them to build on their physical connectivity advantages.