"Because of the width of Nokia, we understand the network end to end," Raghav Sahgal, president of Nokia’s Cloud and Network Services division, said.

More is expected of the modern CISO than keeping up with security threats and ensuring patches are made. It’s all about people and communications.

While generative artificial intelligence can no doubt bring transformative change to the communications industry, it requires a tempered, tactical strategy.

Other top cybersecurity threats include narrative attacks, artificial intelligence responses and nation-state espionage.

CEO Börje Ekholm Ekholm dampened enthusiasm toward full-year growth, noting estimates of the market declining 4% this year “may prove optimistic.”

From a telco perspective, uptake is slow for private networks. But if you look at a vendor like Nokia, it's growing at a double-digit rate, says TBR Insights.

The open source StarlingX project is out with its 9.0 release, promising improved capabilities for users of the telco and edge-focused cloud computing platform.

Bloomberg is reporting that Dish Network has received at least one financing proposal valued at more than $1 billion.

ABI Research rates the open RAN leaders in its cross-reference matrix of innovation capabilities and implementation factors.

"Of course, we'll compete and we'll try to get our fair share, but in the bigger mission we're aligned," Nokia Federal's Steve Vogelsang said.

Juniper Research specifically cited the use of cloud technologies to support APIs that adhere to the open source Camara project.

“Connectivity is critical for success and prosperity in America today," CEO John Stankey said.

To help the global workforce prepare for artificial intelligence, a group of the world’s top technologies has formed the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium.

Airspan Network’s financial turmoil highlights ongoing challenges in the open RAN market. Analysts don't expect open RAN to gain momentum until at least 2025.

“In fact, our assessment is that Huawei’s lead widened in 2023," Dell'Oro Group's Stefan Pongratz wrote.

“If you look at the data transmission right now, more than 80% of data traffic goes over Wi-Fi networks,” IEEE's Purva Rajkotia said.

The new service uses advances in spectrum monitoring and network probes

“We know that we're the third entrant here, but we’re extremely aggressive," AT&T's John Blinkiewicz said.

"There's what is being said and there's what's being done," TBR Insights' Chris Antlitz said.

"The No. 1 thing is when you have a pain point and we solve it in a simple fashion," Highway 9 Networks CEO Allwyn Sequeira said.

The FCC decision to increase minimum speed standards may weed out the bottom of broadband speeds, such as operators relying on DSL or 4G LTE-based FWA services.

“The vendors, the non-telco providers in the private network value chain, are outperforming where the operators are," TBR's Chris Antlitz said.

“Dish needs to do something radically different. It hasn't done that yet. I just think they have nothing to lose," Recon Analytics' Roger Entner said.

CFO Pascal Desroches said the business product will have a narrow scope but continue to adhere to the carrier's financial responsibilities.