In the past 30 days, the tech industry has witnessed key developments that have shaped the networking, cloud, and telecom spaces. Here’s a roundup of the top 10 most-read articles on SDxCentral, highlighting significant trends and stories that have engaged IT leaders and professionals.

Stay ahead with StringerAI’s exclusive September roundup of the 10 most-read SDxCentral articles across the artificial intelligence (AI), networking, cybersecurity, cloud, and data center spaces. Curated from real-time engagement by more than 170,000 IT leaders who are members of SDxAccess (create an account), this list covers the top industry topics about the 2,000-plus companies in the SDxMarketplace. Use these insights to guide smarter, faster decisions in today’s evolving tech landscape.

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Cisco CFO claims HPE-Juniper deal causing WLAN ‘uncertainty’ Though Cisco’s own efforts in that space could themselves cause some customer concern.

AT&T slams Broadcom as a ‘bully’ AT&T claims that Broadcom is “threatening to withhold essential support services for previously purchased VMware perpetually licensed software.”

University CIO has tips after Cisco WLAN switch “The quality of the student experience drives everything. That’s what attracts students and keeps students,” Johnson C. Smith University's John Norris said.

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan touts VMware’s private cloud, AI future “Public cloud is much more expensive, more so than you can ever expect,” Tan said.

Broadcom, Fortinet, Versa gain MEF SD-WAN gold star The recognition came as part of MEF’s first secure access service edge module testing regime that was focused on SD-WAN performance.

Can Nokia be a data center alternative? “[Customers] want something different and, frankly, the incumbents are not delivering,” Nokia's Mike Bushong said.

Does Verizon’s $20B Frontier buy mean a fiber fight is on? Verizon’s expansion pursuit comes on the heels of rivals AT&T and T-Mobile US pushing deeper into the fiber networking game.

How SONiC’s open networking is transforming enterprise IT Software for Open Networking in the Cloud is reshaping network infrastructure with its open-source, scalable solutions.

AT&T might not want Nokia open RAN, but does love its fiber The AT&T deal comes less than two months after Nokia moved to acquire smaller optical networking rival Infinera for $2.3 billion.

Will Ericsson, Google Cloud lead telecom operators to cloud API gold? The new API venture packs a dozen large operators and Google Cloud, but some notable cloud ecosystem names are missing.

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