VMware intends to make radio access network intelligent controller software development kits generally available in January 2022 with initial commercial availability slated to occur by late April 2022.

"Security is a really fragmented industry but we have decided that there is an opportunity for us and a need for us to play in security for fixed and

“We are moving into what I would call the golden age of connectivity,” AT&T CEO John Stankey said.

“With the opening of the C-band we see great new opportunities” that will allow Verizon to “accelerate and amplify our business case on 5G," Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

CEO Börje Ekholm blamed the loss on retaliatory measures resulting from “decisions Sweden took to exclude Chinese vendors in the build-out of 5G networks in Sweden.”

Carrier tech executives explained during a panel discussion at this week's Brooklyn 6G Summit that more work needed to be done.

“The key differentiator from other supplier RICs is ONF’s open, vendor-neutral framework which is driven by operator use cases,” Deutsche Telekom SVP Alex Jinsung Choi said.

“This thing is going to happen, and we are going to help push it along and make it happen,” VMware SVP Sanjay Uppal said.

Nokia claims more than 340 private wireless customers today, and that experience highlighted “a clear gap in the market,” Nokia's Stephan Litjens said.

“Multi-cloud is clearly the next phase of cloud,” and enormous growth at the edge further emphasizes the need for multi-cloud architecture, CEO Michael Dell said.

Bare Metal Orchestrator is designed to automate service delivery, tasks, and workflows across thousands of servers running 5G and open RAN networks.

“Looking at our networking and data center investments alone, we have the largest network with the lowest latency of any cloud provider,” Google's Sundar Pichai said.

“This portfolio allows customers to focus on applications and business initiatives, rather than the management of their underlying infrastructure,” Google Cloud's Sachin Gupta said.

Despite Rakuten’s pioneering ways in open RAN, it and the technology itself has much to prove outside of Japan.

Within four years, “if everything is going well, up to 60%, 70% of the total deployment of radios will be done with this architecture,” Telefónica CTO Enrique Blanco said.

Automation and hybrid cloud infrastructure are no longer a choice, but a necessity, Bharti Airtel CTO Randeep Sekhon said at Red Hat’s Open5G event.

“Our role in 5G is we provide the 5G underlay on top of which the 5G radio access network software runs,” VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram said.

The cloud service providers pledged to protect the “privacy and security of our customers’ data in all jurisdictions through policy and technology.”

Telecom infrastructure vendors collectively pulled in $110.4 billion in revenue during the first half of 2021, up 7.4% from the first half of 2020.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are relatively recent additions to the world of algorithms and they offer new promises for operators.

Politicians and regulators have clamped on to open RAN as an alternative to Chinese-made equipment.

“We’re going to keep doing what we've been doing and all the rest of this stuff will sort itself out as more and more customers deploy open RAN technologies,”

Multiple factors have precluded an abundance of 5G cores, including technical, financial, and readiness, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

“We always imagined that the Red Hats of this space would appear,” but it hasn't happened, ONF's Timon Sloane said.