The 5G-as-a-service offering provides a managed onramp for enterprises that want to add advanced 5G technical capabilities to their private network.

As the secure access service edge market matures, customers are searching for the right architecture, design and vendor, Kumar Ramachandran noted.

Gartner predicts worldwide end-user cloud spending to grow 21.7% in 2023, coming in just under $600 billion.

"We're dealing with legacy Cisco enterprise customers. They're used to buying that hardware and everything upfront," Logicalis' Chris Calvert said.

"They did not want to outsource this to a [network-as-a-service] provider," Aviatrix VP Rod Stuhlmuller said.

The SDxCentral editorial team reflects back on 2022 and shares who we thought were key players and industry moves.

"Telecom vendors are moving toward as-a-service business outcome-based offerings," said NTT VP Amit Dhingra.

Managed services can offer “extensive knowledge and expertise” to ease the transition to secure access service edge, Ron Ronco said.

“Many decision makers don’t have the experience to navigate the complexity across the litany of software-defined networking technologies,” GTT's Todd Kiehn said.

"We're bullish on the space and we continue to invest or even accelerate our investments," Cisco's Michael Beesley said.

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

"We fundamentally believe – and Microsoft, as well – that multicloud is a real thing," Oracle VP Leo Leung said.

Despite a constant stream of secure access service edge launches and updates, ABI Research predicts larger enterprises are up to five years away from beginning to adopt the technology.

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

“My primary goal is to be the XDR platform of choice, period, full stop,” said Thomas, who took the reins earlier this month following Michael Cote’s retirement.

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.

Check out this episode to learn about secure access service edge, or SASE — from what SASE is to the current SASE market.

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Security perimeters have exploded as more than 100 million Americans set up shop in their home offices to ride out the pandemic.

A look at how open source intersects with SD-WAN, how openness could help, and whether open source will come to the networking tech.

Gartner's recent 2018 Magic Quadrant report for WAN Edge Infrastructure provides a good overview of the SD-WAN market but its viewpoints may be a bit old-fashioned.

While cloud computing represents a significant advance, it's really the network edge computing phenomenon that will transform the digital end user experience.

In addition to a new crop of SD-WAN players, traditional enterprise networking players want a piece of the network edge.

Network virtualization (NV) is starting to blur the lines between the LAN and the WAN.