“We’ve taken it upon ourselves to lead the industry in reducing complexity for our customers so that they can protect themselves, but also respond very quickly,” Cisco’s Gee Rittenhouse

The full-stack observability platform ties together ThousandEye's network monitoring and AppDynamics application performance monitoring capabilities

Both vendors managed to maintain control over the broader market in 2020, despite a dramatic downturn tied to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The chipmaker's TeraCertified program pairs service providers with ODM, optical, and software partners that have been validated against its switch silicon.

McAfee added cloud-native app security; Zscaler, CrowdStrike targeted zero-trust security; and IBM open RAN tech will drive Telefónica trial.

“Whether it's connectivity, security, or observability, the world does not just end at layer-7 services, it's much broader than that,” says Cisco's Vijoy Pandey.

IBM is acting as the systems integrator for the project using software and hardware components from partners Altiostar, Red Hat, Quanta, Gigatera, and Kontron.

The partners say the new integrations for joint customers provide identity-centric and zero-trust security across data, people, devices, workloads, and networks.

Palo Alto Networks SASE-fied Comcast SDN; Nokia hastened its shift to cloud; and SolarWinds' CEO claimed software will block breaches.

The move combines Comcast Business’ ActiveCore SDN platform and Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access SASE platform for branch network and mobile user security.

Samsung and Marvell mix a 5G MIMO SoC; Traceable's technology makes it a target; and T-Mobile and Intel are realistic on enterprise 5G.

The service provider's Arcus platform pushes MPLS connectivity into Versa's SASE points of presence

Technology is predictable, but what people and enterprises do with it isn’t, Intel's Asha Keddy said.

“None of this works unless you have coverage, and going underground to provide coverage isn’t trivial,” AT&T's Robert Boyanovsky said.

Cisco and Google teamed up on private networks; 57% of females experienced discrimination in tech; AT&T landed Treasury contract.

“For the first time, Google is making their global network available to enterprises to consume through NCC,” Cisco's Raj Gulani said

The company's SD-Edge platform can turn existing telecom hardware into a SASE point of presence.

The 12-year, $231 million contract also calls for AT&T to strengthen the cybersecurity stature of the Treasury Department’s telecom networks.

Samsung’s scores a 5G RAN win with NTT DoCoMo; Cloudflare updates its SASE with VMware; and Fortinet buys ShieldX.

ShieldX announced a deep integration with Fortinet targeting multi-cloud and campus deployments just weeks before the acquisition.

The new service, dubbed Magic WAN, is essentially a software-defined underlay designed to replace slow and expensive MPLS links

“Understanding how the offense works is the best defense,” said John Hammond, a senior security researcher at Huntress.

“I know you're going to do a great job getting Intel revved up again,” Michael Dell told Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.

VMware joined the cloud-native app security frenzy; Nokia is bullish on its open RAN future; and the telco edge should tempt operators.