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

The deal has garnered approval from more than a dozen international regulatory bodies.

Japan’s NEC Network and Systems Integration added the vendor to its list of managed offering it’s providing to enterprise clients.

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.

CEO Hock Tan stated that artificial intelligence is set to become Broadcom’s dominant semiconductor driver over the next several years.

Kubiya has launched Kubernetes Captain, the first AI 'teammate' for Kubernetes operations, enabling natural language commands, autonomous self-healing, and continuous optimization.

“There’s absolutely going to be some roadmap rationalization,” Moor Insights & Strategy's Will Townsend said.

“Our belief is that open [radio access networks'] success and future prospects hinge on the survival of Mavenir,” analyst Michael Thelander wrote.

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Seemingly every technology related news release over the past 12 months contained a least one reference to artificial intelligence.

SDxCentral was again on the forefront of covering the player and technologies in 2024, helping enterprise decision-makers navigate this growing complexity.

That upheaval resulted in thousands of jobs cut, the exodus of high-profile executives, and concerns over Cisco’s core networking focus moving forward.

Customers have been struggling to unpack what impact a consolidated company might have on operations.

The explosive growth of generative artificial intelligence brings a critical challenge to both enterprise network managers and communication service providers.

That interest included focus on new platform launches and advances that refined underlying SD-WAN architectures in support of growing cybersecurity services.

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.

Lots of businesses know – or suspect – they don't have the right people in house to do high-end work, so they need to find someone who does.

Purpose-built multicloud networking offers better performance and reliability, distributing traffic across multiple clouds and diverse network paths.