"The optics are definitely bad," noted William Ho of 556 Ventures, citing the broader economic environment being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fortinet’s platform provides visibility and management across IT and OT devices, which allows companies to set up consistent security policies across both.

“DSS is an important stepping stone on our path to nationwide 5G," AT&T's Igal Elbaz said.

Efforts to develop what comes after 5G are gaining momentum, but it’s more of a rallying cry to assert leadership than anything else at this stage.

VMware lassoed Lastline to boost security NDR; How to train employees not to fall for phishing attacks; and Cisco squashed dozens of IOS bugs.

“COVID-19 makes digital transformation more important — not less,” Gelsinger said. “This is a permanent change. We’re not going back.”

SDxCentral condemned the murder of George Floyd; Rakuten tapped NEC for 5G core; and MEF boasted ethernet deployments.

The company claims these new appliances will help to support a wider array of operator use cases while lowering the cost of ownership.

The partnership is intended to allow service providers to more quickly and cost effectively develop and deploy flexiWAN-based SD-WAN offerings.

The release includes CNTT’s first whack at its container-based reference architecture that defines a Kubernetes-based architectures for use as part of the CNTT project.

Vendor revenues from ethernet switch and router markets hit $9.1 billion, dropping to the lowest level since the first-quarter of 2013, according to Synergy Research Group.

"Carriers should expect 100-220 kilometer optical reach in most wave division multiplexing applications," Nokia's Randy Eisenach said.

Metadata must move from laying dormant in a passive state and become active. Active metadata, Gartner's Mark Beyer says, has the power to change things.

An open source alternative to proprietary SD-WANs could become the de facto industry standard, said TechVision Research analyst Sorell Slaymaker.

“Competition in the near term will be a marketing war of coverage and speed," said William Ho, founder and principal analyst at 556 Ventures.

Analysys Mason is “optimistic that 5G capex will bounce back in 2021, but the scale will be dependent on new business demand.”

The company will launch three uCPE lines targeting enterprise, branch, and cloud connectivity using AT&T's DANOS-Vyatta network operating system in 2020.

Plus, GTT will bring its Silver Peak-powered SD-WAN to the American market, and Nokia teamed up with Batelco to launch an SD-WAN service.

"In general, we are not seeing any side effects of the epidemic" and no impact on 5G construction, Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin told SDxCentral last month.

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

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

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.