"We make commitments, and we're living up to them. We're not backing off," Verizon Chief Sustainability Officer Jim Gowen said.

"We still have a ratio I would say of 75% of service providers have selected to use our cloud stack,” Ericsson's Monica Zethzon said.

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Dell'Oro Group's Stefan Pongratz noted the Finnish vendor “recorded the highest growth rate among the top five suppliers."

Jeetu Patel and Tom Gillis also expect the platform approach is going to reshape the security vendor landscape

Incumbent network-as-a-service vendors are "watching new entrants carefully," Dell'Oro analyst Siân Morgan said.

“Cisco's basically the closest when it comes to family, we understand them, they understand us,” NTT's Devin Yaung said.

“It's not a flip-a-switch and you are now zero trust,” Deepen Desai said.

The carrier will allow the satellite entity to use those spectrum assets for the private use of AT&T services.

Rick McConnell also expects significant gains from the company's years of artificial intelligence investments.

Kyndryl has been building out its networking capabilities over the last year and is now getting into SASE.

The platform builds off of and runs on top of the Private Wireless-as-a-Service product it launched last year.

“Our focus really is making high performance, cloud computing easy to use, affordable and locally accessible," Vultr CEO J.J. Kardwell said.

Open source-based technologies are now leading the way forward for enterprises, cloud and telco.

Automated reasoning looks at how to logically prove something will or will not work, according to AWS' David Nalley.

The Open Digital Architecture allows for the re-use of building blocks to construct next-generation operating support and business support systems.

“We have a narrow window of opportunity here … to perform and execute and address our capital structure,” Chairman Charlie Ergen said.

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

And "it just goes up from there," depending on "where customers are within their lifecycle," Cisco's Jeremy Foster said.

Dell and Exhibit A are experimenting with how technologies such as intelligent sensors, 5G devices and edge computing can enhance brewing craft beer.

"What is the point of burning the same amount of power even in the middle of night?" Intel's Pallavi Mahajan pointed out.

“I think that the success of the telecom operators in genuinely being a source of new product launch and service innovation," HPE's Tom Craig said.

GlobalData predicts 48% of all cellular connections will be through a 5G radio by 2027.

The tightening of IT budgets and sustainability's commercialization, however, don't seem to have diluted the topic's relevance.