Island recently launched its Enterprise Browser to provide enterprises with more control over their browser environment.

MTN Consulting found the three vendors gained the most telecom network infrastructure revenue share during the first quarter.

“As the second and third iterations of SD-WAN come around, we want to be part of that conversation in a meaningful way," Telstra America's Noah Drake said.

The platform provides enterprises with the ability to better control the quality of their SD-WAN connections.

The multi-vendor project relied heavily on open standards and interfaces to simplify network management.

"We fundamentally believe – and Microsoft, as well – that multicloud is a real thing," Oracle VP Leo Leung said.

Analysts forecast the data center ethernet switch market will grow to near $100 billion in the next five years.

The server line includes scalable and midrange systems with a "tremendous amount of memory and compute capacity," IBM Power VP Steve Sibley said.

ABI Research predicts 5G-Advanced radios will start gaining traction in the market between 2024 and 2026.

“Governments worry about the capabilities of state-backed hackers and the defense industry fears China’s growing technological prowess," GlobalData's Robert Penman said.

The research firm notes that telecom operators currently lack business models that allow them to build on their physical connectivity advantages.

"At some point in the future, quantum computers will likely be able to implement specific algorithms that can attack some of the current day cryptography," Deloitte's Colin Soutar said.

The equipment vendor purchased Ireland-based systems integrator Aspire Technology, which was founded by former Ericsson engineers.

Research firm Counterpoint predicts 5G-based fixed-wireless access broadband subscriptions will surge to 462 million worldwide connections by 2030.

The term zero trust is “nebulous,” but “it is the strongest defense against ransomware,” Akamai’s CTO Robert Blumofe said.

The vendor has not been included in higher-profile open RAN deployments recently launched by Rakuten Mobile in Japan and Dish Network in the U.S.

The vendor and the analyst firm are predicting 5G connections will top 1 billion worldwide by the end of the year.

Comcast debuted the renewable energy nanogrids to power critical network infrastructure in disaster scenarios.

Dell'Oro Group predicts the global small cell radio access network market to exceed $5 billion in sales this year.

"Our goal is to deliver cloud-based management platforms that actually have the same look and feel," Cisco chair and CEO Chuck Robbins said

MTN Consulting predicts webscale operators like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Alphabet/Google will drive network capex growth.

Datadog found strong growth in the use of managed container platforms that take advantage of serverless concepts.

“It's not about one network function anymore. ... On a 5G network we’re thinking 5G use case security," Deloitte's Shehadi Dayekh explained

“When you look at the shared donor that Symantec has imparted on us, we were happy to see Carbon Black and VMware be acquired,” CrowdStrike CFO Burt Podbere said.