ONAP Honolulu introduces more cloud native functionality, early support for end-to-end 5G network slicing, and deeper integration with open RAN standards.

As remote workers return to the office, expect to see enterprise refocus on SD-WAN and SASE vendors that prioritize sensitive data discovery and monitoring as well as multi-edge applications.

SDxCentral sat down (virtually) with Kiersten Todt, a former cybersecurity advisor to President Obama and current managing director of the Cyber Readiness Institute.

Nokia's first 5G RAN products didn't support Massive MIMO 5G layer 1 and eCPRI, Nokia's Tommi Uitto said.

“What networking was 10 years ago, we believe APIs will be for the next 10 years,” Data Theorem COO Doug Dooley said.

'Dish is the launch customer for Telco Cloud Platform RAN,' VMware's Sachin Katti said as Red Hat and Wind River named VMware's sole cloud-only competitors in vRAN

“It’s clear that U.S. sanctions, chip shortages, and general anti-Chinese vendor sentiment are forcing Huawei to find a way to stay in business and reinvent itself," analyst Stéphane Téral

“The interesting thing about those attacks, is they’re exactly what I was warning my board about three and a half years ago,” Armis CISO Curtis Simpson said.

“A lot of organizations had seemingly good processes and controls in place pre-pandemic, but the disruption has just flipped a lot of organizations on their head,” AT&T Cybersecurity's Todd

“We have the equipment that has been ordered now," Dish Network EVP Marc Rouanne said. “We have everything we need."

"Openness allows you to have visibility and it allows you to put your defense and your security where you see the threats might be coming,” Dish Network's Marc Rouanne

NEC is one of the earliest 5G core and RAN vendors to announce its commercial use of OpenShift, but many others are coming, Red Hat's Ian Hood said.

“We’re a pretty acquisitive company and so we are always looking for partners as the overall architecture disintermediates,” VMware's Sanjay Uppal said.

“The bottom line is that without automation, sudden increases in cloud workloads leads to a dramatic growth in security incidents,” Palo Alto Networks’ Matthew Chiodi said.

“The goal and the outcome are the same," Cisco SVP Jonathan Davidson said. "The key is we all want to get to open RAN."

“It’s very important that when you’re going after enterprises that you build segment knowledge," Nokia's Raghav Sahgal said.

The Cloud Native Runtimes for Tanzu acts as a further abstraction layer on top of Tanzu’s core Kubernetes focus to more quickly get event-based cloud-native applications up and running

“We’re seeing so much transformation in the industry and we’re really aiming to be at the heart of that transformation as customers start to think about how they’re going

“We’re trying to create a new architecture that simplifies the layers and enables a much more interoperable future that we’ve always had in IP that now we’re extending into

“One of our key objectives at Cloud and Network Services is to pivot our software to an as-a-service model,” said Raghav Sahgal, president of the Nokia's business unit.

“One thing that’s become very clear in our industry is the importance of chips, the importance of silicon when it comes to 5G,” Samsung's Alok Shah said.

Traceable’s technology would add a much-needed tool to a larger cloud security stack, and vendors including Cisco and VMware have said that application security ranks high on their list

The credit union first landed on VMware because it wanted to virtualize its IT environment. And then it realized the security benefits from VMware’s “unified ecosystem” approach, CIO Mark

Some mid-band 5G gear from incumbent RAN vendors will support virtualized or open RAN frameworks, but that doesn’t mean either system will become dominant in U.S. networks soon.