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

More than three-quarters of European workers consider fast, secure, and reliable broadband connections a necessity, Cisco reports.

Micron will invest $150B in semiconductor R&D; Verizon is on track to meet its 5G infrastructure deployment goals; and Mandiant and Splunk announced a new partnership.

“If you can stop all breaches Mandiant’s aware of, you’re pretty much stopping all the breaches,” Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia said during a panel discussion with Splunk CEO Doug

“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.

Cohesity released services to fight sophisticated ransomware attacks; Promiso added AIOps-enhanced networking to its platform; and ESG reporting requires more regulation.

The update automates network optimization and security using machine learning and zero-trust principles, Prosimo's Mani Ganesan explained.

Carrier tech executives said more work needs to be done on 5G; Windstream added VMware's SASE to its portfolio; and data center immersion cooling is on the rise.

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.”

The latest funding round brings Cato's total raised to $532 million, pushing its valuation north of $2.5 billion.

“We're the first vendor to integrate silicon into the device itself to perform not only Ethernet switch function, but those layer 4-7 functionalities," Aruba's John Gray said.

The partnership combines VMware’s Velocloud SD-WAN and SASE products with Windstream’s Cloud Core backbone network.

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

Pica8 raised $20 million in Series C funding; VMware remains a supporter of the O-RAN Alliance; and Telefónica expanded its relationship with Fortinet.

At the heart of the deal are Versa’s Titan SD-WAN and SASE platforms, which Alcatel-Lucent says will help it expand its network portfolio to mid-sized organizations.

“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.

The telecom's latest managed service tackles hybrid work and cloud security through a combination of Fortinet's SD-WAN and secure access service edge products.

“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’s MX Industrial Edge server reaches 100 Gb/s in a recent test; TSMC dismisses Intel; and Gravwell closes a $3 million seed funding round.

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

Google activated its cybersecurity A-team and touted its cloud progress; and Red Hat upped its Kubernetes edge game.

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.

Hailo raised $136M in Series C funding; Google Cloud announced Google Distributed Cloud and new sustainability metrics tools.