Politicians and regulators have clamped on to open RAN as an alternative to Chinese-made equipment.

Alkira expanded its security portfolio; Cisco is unphased by O-RAN Alliance drama; and Akamai acquired Guardicore for $600 million.

The move marks Fungible’s latest push to bring composable infrastructure to the masses.

Software components tap into Juniper's acquisition of intent-based networking vendor Apstra.

"We believe Akamai will be able to provide the most effective way to combat ransomware on the market today,” CEO Tom Leighton said.

Today’s announcement marks Alkira’s latest security partnership in an approach that Alkira CTO Atif Khan calls “SASE plus plus.”

Coalition is looking to combine cyber insurance and security tools.

Multiple factors have precluded an abundance of 5G cores, including technical, financial, and readiness, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

F5 acquired Threat Stack and other recent SDxCentral news stories.

“We always imagined that the Red Hats of this space would appear,” but it hasn't happened, ONF's Timon Sloane said.

The work paired IBM's open source Qiskit Runtime and a Dell EMC PowerEdge server to emulate a quantum computer on standard x86 hardware.

There’s more work to do and dollars to spend to shore up our collective security posture.

What does it take to win in the hyper-competitive SD-WAN market? According to Gartner, a robust SASE strategy isn't a bad place to start.

"We are building multiple, multi-billion dollar businesses in areas like edge and telco,” Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said.

Peplink, Nuage, Cradlepoint, Barracuda, FatPipe, and Riverbed ranked among the worst in Gartner’s latest WAN Edge Infrastructure report.

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.

Six vendors — Fortinet, VMware, Versa, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, and Silver Peak — graced the leadership category in Gartner's latest WAN Edge Infrastructure report.

T-Mobile's CEO vowed to bolster cybersecurity; Lacework is focusing on R&D; and Equinix deployed a 5G and Edge Technology Development Center to test 5G services.

"If in its current form it actually does make its way into law, that’s going to change the landscape of the broadband business in this country,” AT&T CEO John

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.

“I'm not going to be satisfied until we are second to none globally when it comes to cybersecurity and we knew we needed help," T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said.

“All in all, we are creating a market where nobody else is right now. I mean we have created this market," Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

If AT&T wants to be known as a software pioneer, it sure has an odd way of showing it.