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

Market dynamics and ecosystem development are all that stands in the way of cloud-native 5G infrastructure momentum, Google Cloud's Amol Phadke said.

Nokia introduced Edge Network Controller, an application built within the Kubernetes environment for local network management and automation.

“​​The app world is evolving at a tremendously fast pace, but unfortunately the network world has become much more rigid,” CEO Shekar Ayyar said.

Adopting managed services doesn’t solve the talent shortage, it just makes it someone else’s problem.

Forrester said Google Cloud's weaknesses include its lack of a low-code development environment and minimal support for edge computing.

“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.

AT&T CSO Bill O’Hern warns the cybersecurity threat landscape is extremely intense now while “vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting is at an all-time high.”

For all of SASE's promises, there is still a considerable amount of confusion as to how it fits into the broader security stack, AT&T Security's Rupesh Chokshi said.

The world’s first mobile 5G networks were deployed two years ago and everyone in the industry is still searching, waiting for 5G to deliver on its promise. It might

Both Palo Alto Networks and Nvidia are betting on 5G to enable their next-generation security and AI products.

The service will be live in Toronto by the end of this year, followed by Montreal in the first quarter of 2022, and Vancouver in spring 2022, Bell Canada

Oracle has positioned its portfolio on “providing the brains of the 5G standalone architecture core network, specifically the major intelligent components that form the control plane,” the company's Andrew

Valuable outcomes are derived from multi-cloud, however it remains to be seen if wireless carriers will successfully blend these strengths in a cross-cloud fashion or operate them in effective

There is no silver bullet for security in any context, and that applies to open RAN and cloud native technologies all the same.

ONAP Honolulu introduces more cloud native functionality, early support for end-to-end 5G network slicing, and deeper integration with open RAN standards.

As remote workers return to the office, expect to see enterprise refocus on SD-WAN and SASE vendors that prioritize sensitive data discovery and monitoring as well as multi-edge applications.

“It’s clear that U.S. sanctions, chip shortages, and general anti-Chinese vendor sentiment are forcing Huawei to find a way to stay in business and reinvent itself," analyst Stéphane Téral

NEC is one of the earliest 5G core and RAN vendors to announce its commercial use of OpenShift, but many others are coming, Red Hat's Ian Hood said.

“We’re a pretty acquisitive company and so we are always looking for partners as the overall architecture disintermediates,” VMware's Sanjay Uppal said.

“The goal and the outcome are the same," Cisco SVP Jonathan Davidson said. "The key is we all want to get to open RAN."

“We’re seeing so much transformation in the industry and we’re really aiming to be at the heart of that transformation as customers start to think about how they’re going

Some mid-band 5G gear from incumbent RAN vendors will support virtualized or open RAN frameworks, but that doesn’t mean either system will become dominant in U.S. networks soon.

“We have not talked much about edge computing or cloud computing because we’ve been busy working with our customers" to solve real pain points, T-Mobile EVP John Saw said.