"We're bullish on the space and we continue to invest or even accelerate our investments," Cisco's Michael Beesley said.

The Magic Quadrant report also named Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Aruba, and Versa Networks as SD-WAN leaders.

Bridging the digital divide relies on “making sure that there's a partnership between public [and] private” sectors, Verizon VP Phillip French stated at MWC Las Vegas.

This need has resulted in facilities-based telecom operators having spent hundreds of billions of dollars on spectrum licenses.

The vendor's Telecom Infrastructure Blocks are a cloud-native package of services designed to meet specific telecom workloads and use cases

The network will use the Citizen Broadband Radio Spectrum to support local businesses, government, educational facilities.

“The horizon when we enter the era of what we call cryptographically-relevant quantum machines is getting closer all the time," IBM's Michael Osborne said.

The tool is focused on reducing energy use, monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, and recommending direct carbon footprint reduction strategies.

Cisco has pledged $50 million to the Student Freedom Initiative and $100 million directly to historically Black colleges and universities for tech upgrades.

Many enterprises want to wait a minute on adopting cloud native, "but you shouldn't wait more than a minute," Forrester's Lee Sustar said.

The technology will include increased reliance on distributed cloud and edge computing resources, and a further push up the spectrum scale.

The firm suggests organizations “put every cloud decision up against their business strategy,” regardless of their organization’s maturity level.

“There is a place for companies only offering standalone SD-WAN, but certainly the opportunities are muted,” Gartner's Jonathan Forest said.

NTT's Sushila Nair warned that organizations with siloed networking and security teams will have trouble moving forward.

The open source, cloud, and digital transformation creates greater demand for highly-skilled developers, Turing found.

Uber's internal systems were breached; a new federal cybersecurity grant program is announced; and D2iQ claims to be "Switzerland" of Kubernetes.

Oracle's Andrew De La Torre explained that the market currently lacks a standard way to deploy cloud-based open architectures.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me personally … to really shift the paradigm of a networking industry," Nile CEO Pankaj Patel said.

"A lot of companies are trying to get at a multi-cloud solution again, ... so it's really nothing unique," D2iQ CEO Tobi Knaup said.

The “most glaring” issue with VPNs is the level of security they provide, Enterprise Strategy Group's John Grady said.

Public cloud doesn't mean there, and on-prem doesn't mean here. "It's actually a way of working," Forrester analyst Lee Sustar said.

If product designers don't understand customer perspective, “you're going to end up with all of the problems that we've been seeing in the tech world,” PMDojo Founder Mukherjee said.

“The overall cloud WAAP market is mature, though some segments are quite dynamic, such as bot management and API threat protection,” Gartner noted.

Canalys reported the country's cloud services market growth dipped below 20% for the first time ever.