Cisco Secure Access is designed to provide “secure access to any application for any user from any device from any network,” EVP Jeetu Patel said.

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The Cisco product launch comes nearly a year after it initially announced plans to integrate with the hyperscaler's AWS Cloud WAN platform.

The single management interface can automate “configuration, provisioning and end-to-end orchestration of the enterprise slicing service order.”

Verizon's Nicola Palmer is ending her 33-year tenure at the company; Zscaler named Syam Nair as CTO; and Lacework hired Lea Kissner as CISO.

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RISC-V software ecosystem (RISE), run by Linux Foundation Europe, is a coordinated effort in building foundational open-source tools for RISC-V.

The work will see SoftBank using Nvidia’s latest Grace Hopper chip to power its latest data centers.

Cross-Cloud Interconnect looks to improve multi-cloud networking by connecting Google Cloud with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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

The Cal Poly network can now support T-Mobile US customers, providing more robust and seamless coverage within areas around the campus.

“There is a renaissance in artificial intelligence driven by significant advances in large language models,” CEO Nikesh Arora said.

Red Hat announced a partnership with Intel and Ericsson to achieve 20% power savings in radio access networks (RAN).

"At the end of the day the making of a problem and the solution are very similar," Dell Technologies' Gil Shneorson said.

Meta has contributed three projects for improving network connectivity to the Linux Foundation's LF Connectivity initiative.

"We're the first ones doing this, and really the only ones at this point," Aviatrix VP of Solutions Marketing Rob Stuhlmuller said.

"We will develop capability and compatibility with other [open radio access] networks on a case-by-case basis," Ericsson's Brian Arendse said.

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

"A system integrator cannot run and manage things that are on licensed spectrum," Verizon executive Sowmyanarayan Sampath explained.

The vendor partners with but also competes against Cisco and Aruba for network access control solutions.

The company said its open radio access network system was near software feature parity with already deployed network systems.

Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell forecasts “the number of use cases that involve both observability and security is going to explode."

Ericsson is still in investment mode with its enterprise efforts.

The Dent network operating system is moving forward, adding capabilities that will help make edge and enterprise deployments more efficient.