Increasingly the vendor's SASE is becoming a platform for connecting applications with applications and clouds with clouds.

The platform will boost deployments of converged, packet-optical networks, Juniper's Jim Benson said.

Gartner released its latest WAN edge infrastructure report.

“Much remains to be completed for some of the broader elements that sit at the cross-section of wireless, networking, and cloud industries," VMware's Benoit Pelletier said.

Nokia’s participation appears to be an expansion of Equinix’s 5G and edge computing proof-of-concept center it opened in Dallas last year.

When it launches next spring, Nokia's FP5-based appliances will be among the first to support 800 Gb/s pluggable optics, the vendor claims.

The offering delivers on Cisco's promise to provide deeper integrations with Equinix global network of data centers.

Oracle released a multi-cloud container management platform; Intel rolled out infrastructure processing units; and AT&T is rumored to be the latest telecom victim of cybercrime.

“Based on our investigation yesterday, the information that appeared in an internet chat room does not appear to have come from our systems,” an AT&T spokesperson said.

Fresh off its $7.5 billion valuation, the cybersecurity unicorn built a cloud-delivered firewall and integrated recent acquisitions for new remote browser isolation and SaaS security posture management.

The acquisition is about more than SD-WAN, it's about laying the groundwork for a SASE platform, Extreme Networks' Nabil Bukhari said.

Dell’Oro VP Jimmy Yu predicts that Microsoft is going to be the first big purchaser of the 400ZR pluggable transceiver.

“We're 100% renewable: that's our commitment. But we are in 200 cities worldwide where we have hardware, and not all the data centers themselves use 100% renewable power,” Cloudflare

Cisco's recent cloud and colocation partnerships are the foundation of a grander play leveraging ThousandEyes to shape SD-WAN routing policy.

The “Great Game” now is competing for the future of cyberspace between democratic and authoritarian governments, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

Intel introduced new branding; Cisco invested in 25 cybersecurity companies; and Google is helping organizations reduce supply chain impacts.

Cisco goes all hybrid with its "no return to office" policy, confronts unequal internet access; and VMware's former SVP of security Tom Corn joins Open Systems.

“It’s time for Cyber Command to take the gloves off and proportionately disrupt and degrade the infrastructure and capabilities associated with the attackers,” VMware’s Tom Kellermann said.

Google Cloud's managed intrusion detection system is available in preview; Sysdig plans to acquire Apolicy; and Cisco works to increase internet availability and affordability.

“We’ve been talking about this for years and it’s time that we actually do something about it, particularly with what’s happened during the pandemic,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said.

Palo Alto Networks’ threat-analysis engine processes about 15 trillion transactions per day, Palo Alto Networks SVP Muninder Singh Sambi said.

“Just because you turn off the lights doesn’t mean the cockroaches aren’t there. You just can’t see them,” Cisco's Bob Everson said.

Rakuten claims the new architecture allows it to deploy services in 40 days, compared to 100 days today, and reduce power consumption by almost 30%.

"U.S. export control applies to some of our products. It doesn’t apply to a lot of our products, so nothing changes when the deal closes,” Arm CEO Simon Segars