"We either were going to eventually have to pay the new licensing prices or find a different solution,” Kimley-Horn Technical Analyst Cayla Collins said.

Téral Research predicts the global market will grow from $1.7 billion this year to $10.4 billion in 2030, adding that the “current ecosystem is vibrant.”

“It is a solution that is meant for telcos to deploy for enterprises," Broadcom's Sanjay Uppal explained.

CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said the vendor added “roughly about 700 customers in this quarter,” and that “the vast majority of them are probably VMware customers.”

“A Juniper deal without the Wi-Fi business still has merit" for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, noted Bloomberg Intelligence's Woo Jin Ho.

Samsung and Qualcomm are part of the multivendor deployment.

Active preparation is key, but also be prepared to seek alternatives.

A William Blair report noted “newfound disillusionment from partners about Broadcom squeezing them on margins."

“What I'll say here is that I think both sides right now have pretty good arguments,” said Bloomberg Intelligence litigation analyst Jennifer Rie.

Analysts see opportunity and humongous hurdles.

The move provides some much-needed momentum toward propelling network virtualization opportunities.

“We haven't skipped a beat at Juniper as we go through this process, you can see it in our results,” CEO Rami Rahim said.

“This year is all about making sure the product gets deployed, consumed," Broadcom's Prashanth Shenoy said.

The vendor’s artificial intelligence-related sales to its large, webscale customers surpassed $350 million during its most recent fiscal quarter.

“I do think this deal will get done. It's obviously going to have a longer tail to it," Moor Insights & Strategy's Will Townsend said.

“I think the [Department of Justice] is just wrong,” Juniper CEO Rami Rahim told SDxCentral.

Dell'Oro Group is predicting a doubling of market revenues by 2029.

The extension continues what has been a roller coaster ride for Nokia equipment within AT&T’s network.

The deal has garnered approval from more than a dozen international regulatory bodies.

Japan’s NEC Network and Systems Integration added the vendor to its list of managed offering it’s providing to enterprise clients.

Less than 40% of executives were “highly satisfied” with the outcome of their cloud investments.

Simplifying network connectivity is an important challenge for vendors as they look to move new services and technology into the enterprise space.

"That's the vision here is to get networks to that level," Amazon Web Services' telecom CTO Ishwar Parulkar said.

CEO Hock Tan stated that artificial intelligence is set to become Broadcom’s dominant semiconductor driver over the next several years.