“Our ability to push improvements across this vast network ... is a distinct competitive advantage for us," Verizon's Adam Koeppe said.

The trio will combine their respective areas of expertise to the new offering, dubbed AT&T MEC with Dell Apex.

“The No. 1 concern is if they are deploying a 5G network, how can they protect their 5G network because it's something new," Rodrigo Brito said.

Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall allows customers to define and manage their access control lists to fine tune their own network edge deployments.

CEO Pekka Lundmark did admit the vendor was “starting to see signs of the economic environment impacting customer spend.”

It's no secret that software supply chains are under siege. Despite this knowledge, many organizations — including Fortune 500 companies IBM, Cisco, Siemens and Alibaba — have had a

In a deep dive technical session at KubeCon, developers outlined a series of efforts that will soon transform the way networking is done in the cloud.

The initiative includes members Intel, Juniper Networks, Mavenir, and VMware, and also boasted carrier support from Bell Canada, Telstra, and Vodafone

The lapsed authority is needed to "compete in a global economy, counter Chinese technology leadership ambitions and safeguard our national security."

How can organizations improve cloud native networking and security? IKEA, The New York Times and Bloomberg see Cilium as the answer.

Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia continued to dominate the market in 2022, according to a recent MTN Consulting report.

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

"No one in the U.S market has successfully aggregated two carriers in 5G SA uplink – until now," AT&T's Jason Sikes proclaimed.

Operators have expressed plans to cut their overall capex, which is coming off all-time highs tied to their initial 5G deployments.

Broadcom says its Jericho3-AI is designed to provide ethernet networking for AI at scale.

“These are actual network components that are currently deployed today in enterprise environments, and they are working,” Betacom's Michael Davies said.

Enterprises are experiencing a "mind shift" that isn't aligned to what many vendors are doing, Solo's Doug Chamberlain said.

While AI is here and its capabilities are expanding, the metaverse has yet to be fully realized. But there's no doubt they will complement each other.

The FirstNet initiative was born out of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that showed the need for a unified communications network

Cisco was named a challenger; Skyhigh Security, Forcepoint and Lookout as "visionaries"; and Broadcom, iBoss and Cloudflare as "niche players."

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

The vendor reorganized its recently-formed Networking and Advanced Security business group following the departure of ex-SVP Tom Gillis.

Ciena expects its WaveRouter platform for converged metro networks will be a significant driver of market share growth.

“A lot of people had heard about our unique framework ... so now they can actually feel it, touch it,” Hughes' Rajeev Gopal said.