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'I think we have five to seven years of great growth ahead of us,' Celona CEO Rajeev Shah said

PwC's Dan Hays said artificial intelligence was 'blindingly front and center' at the recent Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025 event.

"We are cognizant of what financial needs we have ... and we do intend to stay ahead of our needs with whatever means we have," CEO Hamid Akhavan 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.

Samsung and Qualcomm are part of the multivendor deployment.

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

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.

“Our belief is that open RAN's success and future prospects hinge on the survival of Mavenir,” analyst Michael Thelander wrote

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Verizon's vendor bankruptcy and EchoStar ditching VMware also drew a lot of views.

Verizon is tapping Nvidia to power enterprise services running over the carrier’s 5G private network and mobile edge compute infrastructure.

It has up to five times the capacity of Wi-Fi 6.

While Nokia is making headway in the data center and cloud API space, its more traditional telecom radio access network business continues to battle

The operator pulled VMware’s platform that had been core to its unique open network architecture since its inception for Wind River’s Studio Operator platform.

The additions could be important for some of its vendors but are not unique.

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“Not a lot of specificity coming out of operators in our industry related to actual O-RAN deployments," Verizon's Adam Koeppe said.