The cloud raises "very interesting prospects for our business as it relates to being able to ultimately serve enterprise customers with networking as a service,” T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert

“We really believe that the edge is the next frontier for digital transformation for organizations around the world,” Dell Technologies' Varun Chhabra said.

Intel plunked $3.5 billion into New Mexico foundry; Aryaka acquired Secucloud to expand its SASE platform; and Red Hat opened up StackRox community.

“I think AWS is certainly in the driver’s seat at the moment of this market without question,” CCS Insight's Nick McQuire said.

Qualcomm claims the reference design for its 5G open RAN silicon will overlap and complement Intel’s FlexRAN reference architecture.

“We’ve got activity going on across the country to actually build out this network,” Dish Network's Stephen Bye said.

Nokia said it inked contracts with 63 new enterprise customers in Q1 and roughly half of those organizations bought private wireless products or services from the vendor.

“2021 will be another challenging year for us, but it’s also the year that our future development strategy will begin to take shape,” Huawei's Eric Xu said.

Azure revenue grew 50% year over year during the company’s third quarter of fiscal year 2021, and it grew 50% during the previous quarter.

VMware tilted into vRAN telco cloud; Red Hat OpenShift got plussed for cloud battle; HPE scored cloud-native storage exclusive.

AT&T and Ericsson's conversations with businesses have shifted to focus on scenarios that require the bandwidth, mass connectivity, and low latency of 5G.

A study conducted by GSMA concluded that the mobile industry is currently responsible for about 0.4% of carbon emissions globally.

"I’m a little skittish. We’re seeing dynamics that are occuring in the global supply chain where unexpected things are popping up," AT&T CEO John Stankey said.

“We have already ordered half of the total network equipment needed from our 5G suppliers to support C-band deployments in 2021,” CEO Hans Vestberg said.

The Swedish company’s radio access network business, which pulled in almost 73% of all sales during the quarter, increased by 3% to $4.3 billion.

Palo Alto Networks called EDR a "really stupid idea;" IBM hinted at more acquisitions; and VMware rolled SASE, endpoint security into Anywhere Workspace.

“Private 5G is very much a relationship between a carrier often, equipment providers, such as ourselves, such as Ericsson, and the enterprise," Cradlepoint's Donna Johnson said.

Open RAN and vRAN aren’t yet competitive with bare metal on capex, opex, power consumption, or performance, according to Nokia Mobile Networks President Tommi Uitto.

Most of AT&T’s private 5G activities are in trials and testing, but the operator suggests fully operational offerings are "coming soon."

“Unlike today’s fragmented architectures, a Cloud Metro is built for resource-pooling, network slicing, and automated cloud-based operations,” Juniper's Brendan Gibbs said.

“I expect IT companies like Cisco to closely work with public institutions and universities, creating synergy in fostering people-centered digital infrastructure," South Korea’s Prime Minister Sye-Kyun Chung said.

"5G is standing on its own two feet in Germany for the first time," Vodafone Germany CEO Hannes Ametsreiter said.

“To unleash truly transformative innovations at the edge, what we need is a fungible edge," VMware's Kaniz Mahdi explained.

VMware detailed modern bank heists strategies; Google teamed up with Broadcom on security; Mavenir readied massive MIMO radios with Xilinx.