"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.

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.

"Our goal is to deliver cloud-based management platforms that actually have the same look and feel," Cisco chair and CEO Chuck Robbins said

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.