Gartner labeled Fortinet and Versa Networks as challengers; Cisco as a visionary; and CloudFlare, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Forcepoint as niche players.

“We have others that we support, but the way I like to say it is we want to be intentionally great at a handful," Nitel's Mike Frane said.

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One of the major advantages of the certification is its ability to streamline industry conversations and eliminate confusion.

There is tighter integration for other VMware products and a focus on security.

“If you don't get the good relationship going you're going to push something for the OT people that they don't want," Omdia's Pablo Tomasi warned.

'I envision a convergence of the data center networking and the stack over time and integrated with Nvidia,' CEO Antonio Neri said.

The primary driver behind the decision was Fortinet's ability to integrate multiple security solutions into a single platform, FC Barcelona's Sergi Ricart said.

But abstracting away complicating layers is key to helping overburdened IT teams.

Dell’Oro Group crowned Zscaler, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks as the top three vendors in both overall and single-vendor secure access service edge markets.

The deal brings Fortinet into the highly competitive and growing cloud-native application protection platform market, said 650 Group's Chris DePuy.

Tata Communications is looking to grow its presence in the U.S. and is pinning much of its strategy on its concept of digital fabric.

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The firm spent considerable time researching vendors for its digital transformation efforts that span from “Argentina to China.”

Network security is undergoing a continuous transition and one of the key organizational drivers is consolidation - Gartner's John Watts

The certification also highlights growing interest in peering connections handling increased traffic from artificial intelligence services.

Verizon was using some of Casa Systems' 5G-based systems to power its cloud-native operations.

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The addition includes Cradlepoint routers, industrial-grade adapters and its NetCloud management layer.

Private 5G progress remains paced for the most successful, poor for others.

Vendors have not been shy about expressing their exasperation in the continued slowdown in telecommunication equipment spend.

Standards bodies have embedded a lot of potential for private 5G and it's just a matter of teasing out what is really needed.

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