"I want every asset that we have in the company ultimately to be dedicated to that 5G layer," T-Mobile US' Neville Ray stated.

The vendor also announced the first commercial collaboration with long-time vendor partner Samsung tied to Dish Network’s ongoing 5G deployment.

Avaya went bankrupt again; layoffs revealed the truth about top tech companies' DE&I stance; and Trellix discovered Cisco vulnerabilities.

The public preview comes as rivals Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud continue to push similar efforts targeting the global telecom market.

Cisco consolidated Intersight licensing from four tiers to two — Essentials and Advantage — with the latter including more automation capabilities.

It is "a full quantum computing system in simulation, including a quantum compiler, a quantum runtime and simulation of quibits," Intel's Anne Matsuura said.

“Together, Intel and VMware are reimagining the enterprise edge with solutions that utilize 5G to enable new use cases," said Intel VP Bob Ghaffari.

The vendors plan to develop energy efficiency proof-of-concepts using centralized unit and distributed unit components.

CEO Pekka Lundmark also expressed confidence in the vendor gaining market share as “geopolitical tailwinds continue to favor us.”

The solution offers unified management of the vendor's firewalls, 5G, and operational technology security product combinations based on customers' needs.

NTT will provide Cisco with network infrastructure design, deployment, use case development, device sourcing, compatibility, and testing.

“We have a modern, 5G, smart network based in the cloud. ... That's Netflix versus Blockbuster,” Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said.

The white paper lays out progress and challenges in advancing open radio access network specifications.

“Our point-of-presence coverage is much bigger than the top three market leaders all combined,” CEO and co-founder Prakash Mana said.

This will support Comcast services using both the lightly-licensed Citizen Broadband Radio Service spectrum and its 600 MHz spectrum.

StarlingX 8.0 shifts to the Debian Linux OS and adds support for open radio access network and Precision Time Protocol.

The company added more industry-specific data, and partners, along with the marketplace for telecom service providers.

The vendor "has a long history in technology innovation designed to help service providers do more with less," CTO Steve Alexander said.

Red Hat is now available via Dell’s Telecom Infrastructure Blocks platform.

Startup Exium touts 5G capabilities as its key differentiator in the secure access service edge market.

The vendor is reportedly cutting 10% of its workforce in its home country, with broader cuts expected.

The cloud giant's Telco Network Builder uses a template to defines how an operator or enterprise wants their network to run using AWS infrastructure.

“I typically joke that our best customers tend to be customers who have actually tried Nokia in some kind of deployment,” Celona's Puneet Shetty said.

Smaller enterprises haven't embraced secure access service edge quite yet, with Dell'Oro's Mauricio Sanchez calling them “laggards in this space.”