This week was all about VMware Explore, as the event was spent trying to show everyone that the company was still the same as it has always been.

“What it takes to attract and retain customers is materially more expensive than it was just a few quarters ago,” CEO Mike Sievert told employees.

“5G [reduced capacity] modules will constitute 18% of total cellular IoT module shipments by 2030," Counterpoint Research predicts.

"Virtually every OEM in the world is building systems" that are designed to run the private artificial intelligence platform, Nvidia VP Justin Boitano said.

GlobalData predicts fixed-wireless access services will double its share of the U.S. broadband market over the next five years.

Cloud computing company VMware is rolling out expanded security capabilities in its VMware Cloud.

The vendor stated these new services are tied to its expanded work with the software-defined edge.

Versa Networks' CEO noted the new capabilities announced this week augment existing AI capabilities from previous iterations of Versa's platform.

“What we think lies ahead is the need for security to stop bad actors midflight, real time, as it's happening,” Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora said.

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Analysts from both Forrester and Gartner have noted Cisco's struggle to integrate and unify its secure access service edge portfolio in their recent reports.

"This will create additional jobs and these are high-tech components so these will also be high-tech jobs," Nokia's Stefaan Vanhastel said.

Kubernetes 1.28 has more than 45 enhancements to help improve resiliency and networking-related security and performance.

As networking and security converge, “that's where a single policy and a single set of controls becomes very powerful,” VP Larry Lunetta said.

The carrier has been touting its C-band spectrum deployment as powering its fixed-wireless access service.

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From "old reliable" MPLS, and why it isn't going away anytime soon, to the next-gen 5G vRAN, our coverage this week ran the gamut of technology.

Black Hat can be a target for attendees to try attack techniques; the network ops center ensures the conference network remains stable and protected.

Current head Amol Phadke is set to leave and will be replaced by current VP Ankur Jain.

Verizon Business will continue to lead all customer acquisitions and sales, as well as overall planning and development with enterprise customers.

This is based on the ability to combine Dish Network’s expanding 5G network with Echostar's satellite capabilities.

The vendor's Compute Cloud@Customer offer lets enterprises run Oracle compute, storage and networking services in their own data centers.

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The technology "represents a vital technology that helps right-size 5G connectivity for intelligent edge applications," CCS Insights' Wayne Lam said.