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.

Versa Networks has been selected to provide SD-WAN, zero-trust access and customer edge security stack functions for the DoD's Thunderdome project.

VMware's Abe Ankumah explained that deployment simplicity makes the partnership unique.

The vendor announced about a dozen enhancements related to artificial intelligence and large language models, along with other data and application news.

The new offering aims to address limitations of traditional LAN architectures by delivering integrated switching, routing, security and network services.

Apstra 4.2 has added expanded visibility into application performance and tighter integration with multicloud infrastructure tools.

Fortinet is growing — with a second quarter 2023 reported revenue of $1.3 billion and two new products for its secure networking portfolio.

One report also noted that the U.S. leads the world in SD-WAN consumption, inhaling more than 30% of the “world’s SDN solutions and services.”

Snowflake has also partnered with Nvidia to leverage its GPUs and bring its AI Enterprise and NeMo LLM framework to the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Red Hat's new Service Interconnect offering enables orgs to more easily create secure application connections across clusters and clouds.

The platform integrates capabilities needed for secure access service edge including SD-WAN, firewall, zero-trust network access and secure web gateway.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute accepted the work for its quantum key distribution industry specification group.

F5 is well-known for its BIG-IP application delivery controller technologies, but that's not all the networking vendor is building.

It is "a full quantum computing system in simulation, including a quantum compiler, a quantum runtime and simulation of quibits," Intel's Anne Matsuura said.

Red Hat is now available via Dell’s Telecom Infrastructure Blocks platform.

The cloud-native security vendor integrated ChatGPT to help organizations quickly secure Kubernetes clusters using an open policy agent.

The disaster prevention and recovery capabilities are built on its security service edge and zero-trust platform.

The firm expects most technology trends to continue in 2023 despite "radical technological advances" in the past year, analyst Avimanyu Basu said.

The cloud giant last week announced it's shelling out $1.2 billion to lay off slightly less than 5% of its total workforce.

Tom Gillis left VMware last month with several other executives under the cloud of the vendor's pending acquisition by Broadcom.

The secure access service edge framework continued to make waves across the networking and security markets.

The satellite connection can be an addition to legacy terrestrial connections or in some instances used as a "preferred connectivity option."

Telefónica and Qualcomm collaborate on XR; Alibaba invests $1 billion for cloud customers; and GTT partners with Caliber Financial Services.