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

Al El Kaafarani predicts 20% of the dominant players in each sector will start the post-quantum cryptography migration process this year.

Monarch Tractor is offering a fully electric and autonomous tractor targeted at helping farmers more efficiently tend to their fields.

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

XDR is a core tool for modern security operation centers.

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

There is a financial reward for operators that can.

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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.

The vendor plans to introduce SD-WAN hardware to support the traffic demands within larger campuses and data center environments.

“From a technical perspective, the carriers are standardizing on the eSIM and use it," Netskope's Joe DePalo said.

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

Extreme was able to deploy a Wi-Fi 6e network, the first of its kind for an outdoor facility.

“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.

Small vendors will "expect fire-sale acquisitions to larger infrastructure vendors, bankruptcies and radical specialization," Forrester's David Holmes said.

There remain challenges in multicloud connectivity, cloud-native migrations, and domain specific artificial intelligence.

“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.

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