The carrier paid more than $300 million for licenses that the Federal Communications Commission now can't release.

With today’s pace of innovation, the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality leaves many businesses buried in debt.

“I think we have an opportunity to grow the pie together,” Microsoft's Shawn Hakl said.

To fix network issues affecting real-time performance, you have to know what traffic is on the network and where it is traveling to and the underlying application requirements.

The telecom industry is in transition as it embraces cloud adoption, contends with an explosion of data and network and capability demands from consumers and businesses.

Netscout found that amplification/reflection attacks decreased by over 18% while direct-path attacks increased by the same amount.

“It's a must have for any private network offering that anyone's providing out there today,” NTT's Shahid Ahmed said.

A year after being acquired by AMD for $1.9 billion, Pensando's co-founder details progress and the road ahead for DPU-based network innovation.

The vendor also named Sabrina Meng as its latest rotating chair, which could further cloud Huawei's relations with the United States.

Increasing the speed of data as it moves through hardware is always good business practice, but equally important is reducing the power costs in data centers.

Modern cloud-based unified communication (UC) and UCaaS systems face sophisticated threats and require enterprise-grade security.

“We have availability, we are in trials, and are the first ones to do that. Others have announced chips," Cisco's Guru Shenoy said.

"The CFOs of companies don't really think that cool technology is just good enough to pay extra for," AT&T's Amy Zwarico said.

“The general consumer is just numb to all of this at this point,” EY's Michael Misrahi said of recent operator cybersecurity breaches.

ABI Research predicts 5G-based fixed-wireless access connections will hit 72 million worldwide by 2027, representing 35% of the total FWA market.

Enterprises are reviewing their network and security infrastructure now more than ever, Netskope's Gerry Plaza said.

Analysys Mason notes that operators should act aggressively if they want to move on this digital transformation opportunity.

“I am very happy to be the plumber of the world,” Tech Mahindra's Manish Vyas said.

“Quantum-accelerated supercomputing has the potential to reshape science and industry with capabilities that can serve humanity in enormous ways," Nvidia's Tim Costa said.

“We intend for everybody at AT&to really lean in and to use [artificial intelligence] to do their job better and more effectively,” AT&T's Andy Markus said.

Many of today’s leading AI systems are recurrent neural networks. The problem: Neural networks are typically forgetful.

Building hardware-centric network infrastructure is “mundane, costly, and high maintenance,” Netksope's Gerry Plaza said.

Juniper Networks is looking to push even more network management to the cloud, with a little help from artificial intelligence.

“Samsung continues to provide the template on how vendors can break into the [radio access network] ... market," IDC's Daryl Schoolar said.