“When it comes to additional deals, we continue to be extremely prudent,” Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

The vendor has written off two-thirds of the $6.2 billion it spent to acquire Vonage Holdings.

“As far as I’m concerned, they’re the best product in the market," Adaptiv Networks CEO Bernard Breton said of rival Cato Networks.

“We're selling security, and we have to ... drink our own champagne and prove that we're also having the best security posture internally," Wael Faheem said.

“5G RedCap is creating an opening to drive 5G device volumes in the IoT domain,” ABI Research's Dan Shey stated.

The $1.1 billion impairment charge was tied to “lower anticipated market growth rates in Vonage’s current portfolio.”

“I always said that we really need a few big vendors because you need volume to really be healthy in this market," Dell'Oro Group's Jimmy Yu said.

“When we think about the partnership, the No.1 competitor that we see in my view is Palo Alto [Networks],” Aqua Security CEO Dror Davidoff said.

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

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“There will be multiple providers, and in fact as far as we’re concerned, we want there to be multiple providers," AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches said.

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.

"We're going to not screw it up; we're going to make you happier about being a Splunk Cisco customer a year from now," said Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins.

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.

“The journey is not over, by any means, but it's very much to expectation moving to subscription," Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said of the VMware changes.

Pax8 plans to add more security giants to its marketplace, CEO Scott Chasin said. “You've got Coke and you have Pepsi, we believe in marketplace neutrality."

CFO Pascal Desroches this week said the carrier is seeing progress toward attracting more potential open radio access network equipment vendors.

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Artificial intelligence and platformization complement each other and the synergy delivers better security outcomes, SVP Tanya Shastri said.

"It’s like you couldn't turn around and not run into someone saying AI [artificial intelligence]," Dell’Oro's Mauricio Sanchez said. “It's ironic that very little was about networking.”

Spectrum and network technology will play a part.

“They’ve tried a bunch of things,” Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

The next phase of development is enabling generative artificial intelligence to take action, not just answer questions, Baris Gultekin and Kari Briski said.

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