The acquisition enables SentinelOne to combine its agent-based cloud workload security with PingSafe's agentless cloud-native application protection platform.

The Starlink satellites were launched into space on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

SonicWall is growing its secure access service edge portfolio and acquiring privately held security services edge vendor Banyan Security.

The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2024, and the two companies did not disclose financial terms.

The Open Networking Foundation is merging its portfolio of open source networking projects into the Linux Foundation as independent projects.

The Gemini Pro API incorporates a dedicated Gemini Pro Vision multimodal input that accepts both text and imagery inputs for text outputs.

Ericsson will be the base of the open radio access network deployment, with Nokia set to lose business.

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware was big news this month. It was also a big month for security with news from Palo Alto Networks, Extreme Networks and Zscaler.

The silicon vendor is seeing declines in enterprise networking chip demand, but that is increasingly being offset by artificial intelligence gains.

“Even this last quarter, we did close some additional deals that I would consider to be influenced by the Broadcom-VMware transaction," CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

Aviz Networks aims to drive multivendor SONiC adoption while keeping the network operating system rooted in its open-source, community-driven origins.

Now that the approvals are all in, Broadcom faces the critical task of integrating VMware.

Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia continue to dominate a sluggish market.

The vendor revealed the price tags of its two recent acquisitions — about $232 million for Dig Security and about $435 million for Talon Cyber Security.

The new products include new radio access network units, carrier aggregation software options, routers and a transport controller.

NTT offers 11 managed services based on Cisco's technologies for networking, security, hybrid cloud, data centers, wireless LAN and more.

“We will make ourselves and our products easier to deal with,” Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said.

KDDI noted the work is a first step toward an all-photonic network architecture.

“We have a narrow path, but there is a path for us to achieve financial stability and make sure we meet our commitments," Chairman Charlie Ergen said.

"We actually have a roadmap to continue to add those [secure access service edge] capabilities and features throughout next year,” SVP Dan DeBacker said.

Talon Cyber Security, a 2.5-year-old Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup, has raised $143 million over three funding rounds.

Splunk, in October money moves, announced a reduction of approximately 7% of its global workforce, which could affect more than 500 employees.

CEO Ken Xie anticipates limited near-term growth in the secure networking market for the next few quarters.

The trial showed the ability to beam a signal further distances from a single point before needing to “regenerate” the light signal.