The ongoing pandemic has only served to exacerbate the situation and reveal these challenges, said Fortinet CMO John Maddison.

“Customers in times like these want to go with people they trust and know, and I think that will work in our favor,” CEO Chuck Robbins said on Cisco’s

VMware bought security startup Octarine; Rakuten Mobile's ambitious 5G plan bled red; and Microsoft moved Project Cerberus to OCP.

Verizon's 5G mobile service is commercially available in 30 U.S. cities today and it plans to reach 60 cities before the end of the year.

Despite growing financial losses tied to its deployment plans Rakuten Mobile still found money to purchase its OSS vendor Innoeye.

“We are ramping in this environment, not actually slowing down in any manner," T-Mobile's Neville Ray said.

The move is part of an effort to drive OCP members to think beyond the narrow, albeit lucrative hyperscale market and focus on adoptability.

AT&T warned of 5G Impact from COVID-19; Trump rallied US chip firms to end reliance on Asia; and Nutanix HCI automated disaster recovery.

Dell and Apstra targeted enterprise SONiC adoption with networking hardware, software, and enterprise-grade technical support.

The update also highlights the ongoing activity behind the widely used software infrastructure layer that continues to trade on its robustness compared to newer options.

AT&T is “still cautious about the visibility and limited in the visibility going forward” as it relates to COVID-19, CFO John Stephens said.

The program will continually test and certify compliance with ONF’s open source software projects and OCP-recognized open hardware.

Ericsson anticipates the pandemic to drive 5G; McAfee, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks tracked COVID-19 cyberattacks; and Rakuten raged toward 5G launch.

The Swedish vendor raised its prediction for 5G subscriptions from 2.6 billion to 2.8 billion by 2025, adding that some gains will also occur before the end of 2020.

This performance claim becomes increasingly important as the broader market continues to shift workloads to the cloud.

"We might be slowed down on the number of base stations that we are able to construct, but I don’t think it’s going to be materialistic," Rakuten Mobile's Tareq

Cisco patched firewall bugs; Amazon threw another JEDI tantrum fit ; and Dish fought off critics, says 5G efforts are on track.

Despite the calamity brought on by COVID-19, Dish still plans to launch 5G service in a single market with a network core before the year ends.

Steven Wood, Cisco’s principal engineer of enterprise architectures and SD-WAN, made the statement as part of this week’s ONUG Virtual Live conference.

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance alone has more than 1 million deployments globally.

The ToIP Foundation aims to establish a common standard for consumers and businesses to ensure data is coming from a trusted source.

T-Mobile US expanded its 5G network running on 600 MHz spectrum by activating 1,600 sites during the quarter and an additional 1,000 sites in April.

“Our ability to directly manage our supply chain and shipping logistics allowed us to quickly adjust to the current dynamic environment,” CEO Ken Xie said.

The IoT security startup’s agentless software continuously monitors unmanaged devices across IT and OT environments.