DARPA's Pronto project, which supports research for secure 5G network infrastructure, is also funding ONF to deploy and operate an Aether network as a managed service.

Some 44% of organizations experienced at least one hardware-level or firmware attack over the past 12 months, and 16% have had more than one attack.

The FortiGate Rugged 60F is designed to operate in remote locations that are not environmentally controlled.

AWS’ Jassy broke down hybrid cloud; HPE ditched Silicon Valley for Space City; and Nokia confirmed multiple c-suite departures.

During his opening keynote, CEO Andy Jassy announced four additions to AWS’ storage services that could easily be mistaken for a family of Star Wars droids.

Broadcom's Trident SmartToR chip operates in a similar vein to a smartNIC by offloading functionality that would otherwise be handled by the CPU.

Wavelengths, Local Zones, and Outposts are a collection of the many ways AWS wants to bring its cloud platform to customers wherever they are, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said.

The platform takes advantage of the large private networks built by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and allows customers to define their underlay in a matter of hours.

HPE will relocate from its storied Silicon Valley roots where founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started the company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939.

Amazon allied with Apple; Google edged Anthos to bare metal; and a pesky Cisco VPN bug that avoided capture was your favorite SDxCentral November story.

The cloud giant unveiled new Graviton2-based instances alongside a partnership with Intel's Habana Labs and its own machine learning training chip called Trainium.

Users can also access a website – Amazon ECR Public Gallery – that hosts the public container images, allowing them to view image details and how to pull the

Google says Anthos on bare metal gives customers more flexibility to run their workloads wherever they want: in Google Cloud, on-premises, in other clouds, or at the edge.

A Cisco VPN bug avoided capture; Ericsson explained why 5G isn’t awesome in the U.S. (yet); and AMD unveiled its Instinct MI100 GPU.

Nvidia, AMD took aim at Intel; IBM Cloud claimed a quantum cryptography first; and Cisco stirred the 5G open RAN M&A pot.

Huawei, Juniper Networks, and Cisco were ranked challengers in this year's report.

Delayed spectrum auctions, permitting, technology evaluations, and testing have all been delayed by about nine to 12 months due to the ongoing global pandemic, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

If Cisco does acquire one or multiple open RAN vendors, it wouldn’t represent a major shift in strategy for the vendor, said analyst Roger Entner.

Intel faces increased pressure from rival AMD and a swath of Arm-based server chips, while Nvidia, once unchallenged in the data center GPU space, has a challenger in AMD.

The company launched its first AI chip today which will be used to enhance its existing services while extending AI services to customers.

"We probably have fewer vendors, when you look at the entire ecosystem, than most incumbent carriers do,” Dish Network's Stephen Bye said.

Dell Technologies is "cautiously optimistic about the potential for recovery post-pandemic related pressures," CFO Tom Sweet said.

Nutanix posted a Q1 beat; Telus tapped Nokia for 5G services; and Matrixx dives into HPE Greelake.

Zenlayer is in the process of deploying several Juniper appliances and services as it expands its cloud to emerging markets.