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

Microsoft has expanded the capabilities of its secure service edge (SSE) offering with new features designed to enable zero-trust security.

The Keysight Elastic Network Generator facilitates automation and collaborative testing between vendors, and is based on an open-source, vendor-neutral API.

It's combining efforts with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and other Linux Foundation Networking projects.

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.

The move highlights the tenuous and competitive nature of the satellite telecommunications space.

“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.

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

The vendor also introduced five new next-generation firewalls, expanding its portfolio to include more use cases such as 5G and operational technology.

“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.

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.

Chris Sambar, EVP for technology at AT&T, said the list includes a trio of “communication-based scenarios” and three "beyond communications.”

The layoffs could affect more than 500 mostly-U.S. employees, although Splunk CEO Gary Steele noted that they were not a direct result of the Cisco acquisition.

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

Just like that, we're already through one-third of Q4 (or fiscal year Q1) and the tech companies we cover are working hard to make it an impactful quarter.

“My advice to IT pros is ... if you're doing things today that aren't really core to your resume, stop doing them," ZK Research's Zeus Kerravala said.

The new A10 Defend security portfolio integrates artificial intelligence and machine learning to help identify and mitigate advanced, multivector DDoS attacks.

The new Linux 6.6 kernel is now available, integrating an array of updated capabilities that will impact workstation, server and cloud deployments.

Networking vendor Netgear is seeing mixed results fiscally as the company faces headwinds in some markets for its small and medium business users

In 2024, "we expect continued application and API growth, fueled by automation efforts and new use cases, including generative AI," said CEO Locoh-Donou.