The investment research firm remains just as skeptical as ever about 5G use cases and the difficulty operators will confront in gaining a meaningful return on their 5G investments.

“We have an approach that looks at the technology as a general-purpose technology for massive digital transformation, especially in the enterprise,” Verizon's Nicki Palmer said.

Segments where Nokia can’t achieve leadership as a top three vendor won’t be tolerated for long, CEO Pekka Lundmark warned.

IoT won’t be converging to a point where specialized services are no longer required — quite the opposite, “it’s actually divergent,” AWS' Dirk Didascalou said.

The vendor's Mobile Networks division, which includes its radio access network, microwave radio link products, and network planning, deployment, and support services, is expected to return no profit in

The cloud giant plans to release chaos engineering as a managed service in early 2021, borrowing a framework popularized by Netflix for internal use back in 2011.

“We don't see a lot of reasons not to put everything on Kubernetes at this point," T-Mobile US' Joe Searcy said.

The service is, out of the gate, supported by 13 SD-WAN vendors and available in three AWS regions.

Deutsche Telekom said it plans to migrate the majority of its internal IT workloads to the public cloud by 2025, and pointed to Microsoft Azure as a “central part

“I believe IoT will disappear as a term. The Internet of Things is really a snapshot in time because fundamentally everything will be connected,” AWS' Sarah Cooper said.

The carrier's 5G network that is running on low-band spectrum shared with its 4G LTE network is “performing as we expected, on par or better than our 4G,” Verizon

Equinix Fabric is now available in 49 metropolitan areas across five continents, and the company said it will reach 56 markets by the end of 2021.

“It’s still a big question mark that how much of what ETSI has developed will be deployed there," ETSI and Huawei's Sami Kekki said.

While Cisco is eyeing growth in 400 Gb/s infrastructure, a large amount of Cisco’s optical customers are still deploying 100 Gb/s.

“The overall telecom equipment market continued to appear disconnected from the underlying economy,” Dell’Oro Group VP Stefan Pongratz wrote.

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.

Marcus Weldon, CTO and president of Nokia Bell Labs, and Basil Alwan and Sri Reddy, co-presidents of the IP/Optical Networks unit at Nokia will be leaving the company soon.

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.

“We think of hybrid infrastructures, including the cloud along with various other edge nodes — on-premises data centers being one of them, but there are several,” AWS CEO Andy

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.

The major workforce reduction comes less than two months after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced plans to ditch IBM’s legacy business units into a separate company.

"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.