Multi-vendor integrations remain a key requirement for customers, said Mansour Karam, Apstra founder and Juniper VP of product.

If open RAN experiences faster adoption and higher efficacy the total global GDP impact could hit $725 billion.

Cisco blamed a supply chain shortage for Q3 hit; SolarWinds CEO said Russian attack happened even earlier; and Qualcomm pushes into 5G open RAN.

Firm becomes the second SD-WAN vendor after Cisco to integrate with Megaport's new network-as-a-service offering

While the optical market faired well during the quarter, LightCounting warned market uncertainties driven by the economic recovery and geopolitical tumult could spell trouble.

"As cellular infrastructure evolves to be more virtualized, modular, and interoperable, it is becoming more open and competitive and a platform for innovation,” Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian said.

Also at the RSA Conference, the security vendor published new attack surface data that found global enterprises expose a new, serious security vulnerability every 12 hours.

Rakuten sets open RAN example; White House cyber chief details staggering costs of insecure tech at RSA; AT&T sheds media assets.

Fortinet's latest update adds managed detection and response alongside new Mitre ATT&CK tags.

“We plan to continue the momentum in our mobility business by stepping up our investment in our wireless network," AT&T CEO John Stankey said.

The updates promise to simplify the deployment and management of low-latency networking in applications like high-frequency trading.

Rakuten's successes and mistakes are being magnified because hundreds of network operators and vendors are looking at Rakuten as an open RAN example.

Palo Alto Networks VP declares the network dead; operators struggle in a cloudy world; and Intel says silicon can stop cyberattacks.

SecureX debuted at last year’s RSA Conference, and now more than 7,000 businesses use the platform. Cisco executives also teased a “premium version” of SecureX in the future.

In the year since acquiring SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix, Palo Alto Networks has moved quickly to integrate its features into its broader SASE platform.

“Operators have little choice. They tried playing in the cloud space and did not succeed,” Gartner VP Sid Nag said.

TIP rolls out a disaggregated WiFi template; Nokia and Dish target 5G open RAN security; and Cisco boosts its optical networking stack.

The acquisition adds SDN automation and telemetry to Cisco's optical networking stack.

OpenWiFi is a fully disaggregated system spanning access point hardware, an open source access point network operating system, and a software development kit for cloud-native apps.

“One of the most important first steps in a zero-trust journey is to establish strong authentication,” Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal said.

Security services will be both the largest and the fastest-growing category, accounting for 48.8% of security spending between 2019 and 2024.

AT&T inked a $175 million contract with the U.S. Department of Transportation; COVID-19 jumpstarted SASE; ONAP Honolulu hit GA.

AT&T will provide the Department of Transportation with virtual private networking, IP-based voice services, and access to cloud computing and services.

Google Cloud teamed up with CrowdStrike on 'beyond XDR' security integrations; and an AWS exec dished about its 5G telco cloud aspirations.