The successful trial comes as parent company EchoStar’s operations continue to cruise toward an impending financial waterfall.

“Public cloud is much more expensive, more so than you can ever expect,” Tan said.

Finances and support remain significant hurdles.

Artificial intelligence is driving the boom but is also impacting job growth.

“Although disappointing, the slowdown in hiring is about in line with expectations,” CompTIA's Tim Herbert stated.

Colt is currently deep in 400-gig, but is trialing a path toward 800-gig networking.

GlobalData recommends operators focus more on the horizontal nature of their network resources instead of trying to delve deeper into verticals.

“Once you see the AI-Native, you can’t unsee it," Juniper Networks' Jeff Aaron said of the vendor's artificial intelligence-powered networking product.

"We want to make sure we're setting the stage with the market of our intention," Dell's Drew Schulke said.

CEO Chuck Robbins said the vendor will focus on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and cloud.

Company management said it's working different angles toward scrounging together the funds to pay a $2 billion debt maturity due in November.

Growth in the use of artificial intelligence for new applications and a focus on managing data center costs is driving the move.

The Cloud Security Alliance recently ranked “insecure interfaces and APIs” as the third-most significant cybersecurity threat risk for 2024.

Lumen’s investments are geared toward supporting a standing $5 billion in aggregate sales and an additional $7 billion in sales pipeline.

“The telecom edge compute market continues to grow, though at a slower rate than originally forecasted," TBR analyst Michael Soper noted.

Dell'Oro Group predicts an investment surge that could see $1 trillion in capex by 2028.

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“I think a lot of that opportunity might still be in front of us on the business side,” T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert told investors.

Recent acquisitions build on the carrier's core network capabilities.

Wiz posted substantial revenue growth versus its cloud-native application protection platform competitors.

“CrowdStrike just created the best argument against consolidation and platformization: widespread outages,” Forrester's Jeff Pollard said.

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

Forrester identified Palo Alto Networks and Cisco as leaders in its latest operational technology security solutions report.

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