The updates don't qualify as "new innovations," but they do represent an evolution in support of product consistency, Arista's Martin Hull said.

IBM's Andrew Coward claims carrier competition for 5G-fueled fixed-wireless access will continue on a "rapid growth path throughout 2023."

"I sell SASE and SD-WAN, but very few SD-WAN players are SASE-capable," Nikesh Arora said.

SVP Steve Seaone believes “if you bring detachment to emotional interactions, you tend to get better outcomes."

The low-code application platform market will grow 25% to reach $10 billion next year, according to Gartner.

China's cloud market is entering a new era in terms of the competitive landscape and customer structure, Canalys reported.

“Operators will be under pressure from investors to raise prices in line with inflation," Analysys Mason Partner Tom Rebbeck told SDxCentral.

When it comes to Extreme’s effort in diversity, equity, and inclusion, “the foundation is built around career, culture, community, and commerce."

Interestingly, its rival Cisco recently took the exact opposite path to expand its secure access service edge reach.

The challenge is that vendors have a tendency to call everything network-as-a-service, "and it really isn't NaaS half the time," Gartner Analyst Andrew Lerner said.

Around 30% of the respondents chose zero-trust network access as the top zero-trust investment priority, Zscaler found.

"I feel like I could actually just scream," Gartner Analyst Jeffrey Hewitt said of the talent shortage's tenacity.

"You use the word innovation incorrectly," Gartner Analyst Andrew Lerner told the networking vendors in the audience.

Almost all (96%) surveyed organizations consider security resilience crucial to their business, Cisco found in a recent report.

Aryaka VP Craig Patterson sung the praises of managed SD-WAN as a crucial failsafe for maintaining enterprise network uptime.

Secure service access encompasses secure access service edge, zero-trust network access, and extended detection and response, according to GigaOm.

Managed services can offer “extensive knowledge and expertise” to ease the transition to secure access service edge, Ron Ronco said.

Aruba is investing in the data center space while "looking at" private 5G, and security as part of a secure access service edge solution, President Phil Mottram said

Dell’Oro Group reported those four vendors gleaned the most open radio access network-related revenues during the first nine months of the year.

The company plans to aid service providers with network dead zones, then use its crypto assets to donate cell deployments in under-connected areas.

Remote work that goes beyond calendars and meeting links: “that's a real problem, but the metaverse is not the solution to that,” Adam Riggs said.

“The one thing that's common across the board is the desire to modernize and become more cloud-like," AWS' Jan Hofmeyr said of telecom operators.

Douglas Bellin said the average machine age across manufacturing globally is 25 years old, meaning most equipment can't communicate with a 5G radio.

“The thing I love about Cisco is we are encouraged to have what we call 'courageous conversations,'” said the Native American Network ERG Co-Lead.