"No one in the U.S market has successfully aggregated two carriers in 5G SA uplink – until now," AT&T's Jason Sikes proclaimed.

How Riot Games moved its workloads to the cloud and the Edge

Operators have expressed plans to cut their overall capex, which is coming off all-time highs tied to their initial 5G deployments.

The Rancher 2.2.7 platform release is focused on hybrid, multi-cloud and multi-cluster management, but security remains key, SUSE GM Peter Smails said.

Broadcom says its Jericho3-AI is designed to provide ethernet networking for AI at scale.

“These are actual network components that are currently deployed today in enterprise environments, and they are working,” Betacom's Michael Davies said.

These AI-driven phishing campaigns are harder to identify and counter, as they can convincingly imitate legitimate communications, the vendor noted.

Enterprises are experiencing a "mind shift" that isn't aligned to what many vendors are doing, Solo's Doug Chamberlain said.

While AI is here and its capabilities are expanding, the metaverse has yet to be fully realized. But there's no doubt they will complement each other.

New language models don’t just turn information into charts or bullet points, but rather introduce the concept of "writing a narrative."

If companies genuinely seek to fulfill their ESG goals, the whole organization needs to "be mobilized across all levels," IBM VP Bill Lobig said.

The FirstNet initiative was born out of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that showed the need for a unified communications network

Cisco was named a challenger; Skyhigh Security, Forcepoint and Lookout as "visionaries"; and Broadcom, iBoss and Cloudflare as "niche players."

"We're dealing with legacy Cisco enterprise customers. They're used to buying that hardware and everything upfront," Logicalis' Chris Calvert said.

The vendor reorganized its recently-formed Networking and Advanced Security business group following the departure of ex-SVP Tom Gillis.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks rose 72% last year, as social engineering continues to be a major risk, according to ArmorBlox.

Ciena expects its WaveRouter platform for converged metro networks will be a significant driver of market share growth.

“A lot of people had heard about our unique framework ... so now they can actually feel it, touch it,” Hughes' Rajeev Gopal said.

The carrier paid more than $300 million for licenses that the Federal Communications Commission now can't release.

With today’s pace of innovation, the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality leaves many businesses buried in debt.

“I think we have an opportunity to grow the pie together,” Microsoft's Shawn Hakl said.

To fix network issues affecting real-time performance, you have to know what traffic is on the network and where it is traveling to and the underlying application requirements.

The telecom industry is in transition as it embraces cloud adoption, contends with an explosion of data and network and capability demands from consumers and businesses.

Netscout found that amplification/reflection attacks decreased by over 18% while direct-path attacks increased by the same amount.