“The general rule that we have from software development teams are, if it can be done twice manually, it's going to get automated," Comcast's Elad Nafshi said.

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That attentiveness could be critical to Broadcom maintaining positive sentiment from its customers, many of whom are suffering through sticker shock.

Analysts predict the private 5G market could finally be gaining its legs.

An increasing number of enterprises are realizing that their legacy networking systems are too old and need replacement.

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Verizon and T-Mobile US also initiated new connection goals that show continued consumer and enterprise growth expectations.

Gartner noted that VMware concerns will result in half of enterprises over the next couple of years initiating plans for an alternative vendor.

But analysts predict more than 100,000 VMware customers could exit Broadcom.

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Gartner’s latest SD-WAN ranking also included Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Versa Networks, and Palo Alto Networks in the “leaders” quadrant.

A GSMA Intelligence report found 24% of operators view hyperscalers as formidable competitors in edge networking and cloud.

“The interesting thing about enterprises is they actually use a lot less data than consumers do,” UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel said.

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“Leadership here is amazing. I might have the technical part of it, but they have the drive," Brownsville CIO Jorge Cardenas said of the Texas town.

Dell’Oro Group recently predicted that open radio access network equipment will account for more than 25% of the total worldwide RAN market by 2028.

T-Mobile US is heading a new effort based on the AI-RAN Initiative.

Both are investing billions-of-dollars into fiber and expanding their plans for fixed-wireless access.

“The quality of the student experience drives everything. That’s what attracts students and keeps students,” Johnson C. Smith University's John Norris said.

Though Cisco’s own efforts in that space could themselves cause some customer concern.

Analysts have started to question the ability for the market to support several satellite-based service options.

Verizon’s expansion pursuit comes on the heels of rivals AT&T and T-Mobile US pushing deeper into the fiber networking game.

The AT&T deal comes less than two months after Nokia moved to acquire smaller optical networking rival Infinera for $2.3 billion.