The deployment is distributed across T-Mobile US’ facilities and on-premises private cloud infrastructure using the Cisco equipment

Executives from vendors that Gartner says offer complete secure access service edge solutions give their 2023 predictions for the evolving market

Improved network infrastructure and the growth of cloud-native platforms will catalyze metaverse adoption, Analysys Mason's Martin Scott explained

Enterprises are starting to have a better idea of 'what our workforce looks like today and will look like into the future,' IDC's Brandon Butler said

The company plans to take advantage of the CHIPS act and other government funding incentives.

The vendor also plans to focus its cloud efforts in areas where it “has leading positions."

Analyst Andrew Lerner reflected on the 2022 secure access service edge market and gave his predictions heading into the new year.

The work builds on its growing Azure for Operators platform that initially began in late 2020.

The firm expects more than 60% of organizations will have multiple firewall deployments by 2026

Gigapower’s initial plans are to deploy a multi-gigabit fiber network to 1.5 million customer locations using a commercial open access platform.

With around 70 suppliers competing for market share, Gartner said the SD-WAN market was “mainstream and maturing” in 2022.

The SDxCentral editorial team reflects back on 2022 and shares who we thought were key players and industry moves.

While the push for 5G in space has boomed in 2022, there are many barriers to overcome before it can be broadly used.

The growing complexity of managing cloud-native technologies will push the service mesh space to its potential in 2023, Solo.io's Idit Levine said.

Xilinx has been a “behemoth to try and integrate” but has led to a promising marriage of roadmaps to “go really big in AI," AMD's Ruth Cotter explained.

It's a balance "of reminding ourselves that the numbers are people and that the work that we do is deeper than hiring targets," Crystal Moore said.

The vendor last year scored a five-year deal with Canadian telecom giant Rogers to power the operator’s private wireless business.

SDxCentral listed Snyk, Cybereason, Netskope, Lacework, and Illumio as the security unicorns that we expected to go public in 2022, but none of those happened.

The vendor was recently tapped by Indian operators Bharti Airtel and Jio to provide 5G equipment to their nascent deployments.

The third quarter of 2022 marked the seventh quarter in a row with secure access service edge revenue growth exceeding 25%, Dell'Oro Group reported.

"Telecom vendors are moving toward as-a-service business outcome-based offerings," said NTT VP Amit Dhingra.

“SD-WAN was primarily done for outside the cloud, to marry multiple different types of transports and not about optimizing the cloud,” Amir Khan said.

The computing giant has linked with Casa Systems and Enea on a private 5G platform that is targeting the rapidly expanding market.

“I think the global landscape today is actually creating a perfect storm for attackers to go under the radar,” SVP Wendi Whitmore said.