HPE bought Athonet to pad its private network portfolio; Cisco acquired Valtix to expand its multi-cloud capabilities; and SAP sold Qualtrics.

Amazon and Zscaler announced layoffs; Verizon shook up its executive ranks; and Accenture reported on gender diversity in the tech industry.

VMware touted employee engagement; IBM installed the first quantum computer for health care research; and Nutanix launched an internal audit.

CTO Art Nichols explained the gear represented “a small fraction of the company’s data transport capability – less than 1%.”

The SD-WAN expansion includes direct connections to cloud services and a new pricing model that Comcast said is “highly competitive.”

The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority regulator initiated an advanced review phase on the deal.

“We are hearing stories about network teams that year-round are constantly dealing with upgrade situations," BackBox's Chanoch Marmorstein said.

New research reports that 85% of critical infrastructure organizations experienced at least one ransomware attack in 2022.

Cisco accelerates its cloud security expansion with the Lightspin acquisition, marking its second deal within two months.

“Small and medium-sized enterprises actually should be ideally positioned for secure access service adoption," Aryaka's Klaus Schwegler said.

The updated core IP backbone will support the carrier’s service-level agreement-capable network slicing services.

Telcos are expected to play a unique role in the post-quantum world, GSMA Post-Quantum Telco Networks Chairperson Lory Thorpe said.

As Comcast integrates 400G Ethernet into its data centers, the open source SONiC networking operating system is playing a big role.

Its Data and AI Console is designed to build organizational trust in using data to support business decisions.

"What the neural network is learning is more and more aspects of the world of people, of the human conditions," OpenAI co-Founder Ilya Sutskever said.

Google Cloud announced the general availability of Cloud Armor advanced network distributed denial of service protection.

The trial was conducted in SoftBank’s AI-to-5G Lab, which it constructed last year with help from Nvidia.

F5 is well-known for its BIG-IP application delivery controller technologies, but that's not all the networking vendor is building.

Most major vendors outside of China are experiencing “unusually high backlogs,” said Dell'Oro WLAN Research Director Siân Morgan.

The telecom giant said it was investing multi-millions of dollars to combine Wavelength running on BT’s EE 5G and 4G LTE mobile infrastructure.

The E2 work basically taps into the near real-time xApps running in a radio access network intelligent controller to optimize a RAN deployment.

The managed SD-WAN and firewall will secure client locations from a single portal and ease management, 11:11 Systems SVP Anthony Lobretto said.

The software package supports voice over LTE services for operators working through the shutting down of their legacy 2G and 3G networks.

The work comes as a new Dell’Oro Group report indicated Ericsson exited 2022 just behind Nokia in worldwide telecom equipment sales.