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Cisco Infrastructure Revenue Slips, Security Soars

Overall during Q2, Cisco’s total revenue remained flat at $11.96 billion with product revenue down 1% to $8.57 billion and service revenue up 2% to $3.39 billion. Read more.

Verizon Business Pushes 5G MEC to Retailers With Deloitte

Verizon expanded its fresh partnership with Deloitte to make a new platform available to retailers that rides on 5G and mobile edge computing. Read more.

GCP Narrowly Edges Past AWS, Azure in Cockroach Labs 2021 Report

GCP came out on top in overall performance, but Azure stood out as the best storage, and AWS for the best latency response. Read more.

Fixing the Automotive Chip Shortage Could Hurt US Chipmakers

Enacting the National Defense Authorization Act might help boost semiconductor capacity in the long run, but it could have unintended consequences for U.S. chipmakers. Read more.

Open RAN Sprouts (Yet) Another Community

Competing motivations are abundant in open RAN, and most of these groups are shoving the technology in a direction that best serves the goals of those leading the charge. Read more.