"It's a strong differentiator for us, and I don't see any of our competitors going to that length today," SUSE GM of Edge Keith Basil said.

Douglas Bellin said the average machine age across manufacturing globally is 25 years old, meaning most equipment can't communicate with a 5G radio.

“The thing I love about Cisco is we are encouraged to have what we call 'courageous conversations,'” said the Native American Network ERG Co-Lead.

Gartner argues organizations should understand what translates from IT-centric zero-trust strategy to cyber physical systems.

"The reality is that we already have in almost every operator at least two, if not three, hyperscalers in play," Red Hat's Ian Hood said.

Windstream Director Chris Alberding said "the cost is going down" and "the ease of implementation is going up" for data loss protection.

Cisco plans to roll out Duo's passwordless technology to all of its employees by the end of this year.

As secure access service edge adoption continues across industries Gartner is seeing a particular emphasis on single-vendor strategy.

"I know in the quantum realm, our biggest challenge is people and the workforce and talent development," Laura Thomas said.

"Reducing complexity is where cloud-native needs to evolve," OutSystems' Barry Goffe told SDxCentral.

The vendor's stockholders earlier this month voted to approve the deal, which is set to close during Broadcom’s 2023 fiscal year.

The firewall is managed by Fortinet and taps its FortiOS operating system and FortiGuard threat intelligence capabilities

"In the last 90 days, everybody wants to get into it because it is revolutionary – it’s going to change the way people can act," Lynk CCO explained.

Telecom may "now have an opportunity to hire top talent who may have been far less likely to close over the past [three or more] years."

Dell'Oro Group revised its short-term market forecasts, but highlighted Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia still dominated the space.

Perimeter 81 also found secure service edge is a core priority for respondents who had concerns with data privacy and cloud security.

Gartner warned against finding one cloud service provider, settling down, and calling it a cloud strategy.

Mavenir boasts agile collaboration that provides "a shorter time to market for Magyar Telekom’s new requirements," Ashok Khuntia said.

Analysis Mason found edge compute components remain rare in current private network deployments despite their inherit synergies.

Public cloud market growth will be hard, Forrester Analyst Lee Sustar said, regardless of an economic recession.

Because SASE is still a work in progress, CIO and CISOs "need to rethink their respective roles" in supporting infrastructure operations.

The carrier's initial private network deals have resulted in incremental spending by customers.

Claude Mandy dove into how to navigate zero-trust deployments for on-premise, hybrid, and multi-clouds.

The edge platform IBM is building for India's Bharti Airtel will bring low-latency edge computing to customers, according to Shawn D'Souza.