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Fortinet Rings In Q1 With 5G Firewalls, BT SD-WAN Deal

The new appliances come amid another quarter of double-digit growth and signal a new focus on 5G security from the core to the edge. Read more.

Nokia Claims Early Turnaround Success

Nokia said it inked contracts with 63 new enterprise customers in Q1 and roughly half of those organizations bought private wireless products or services from the vendor. Read more.

Dish Teases Multiple 5G Cities Coming By Year End

“We’ve got activity going on across the country to actually build out this network,” Dish Network's Stephen Bye said. Read more.

Amazon Cloud Revenue Jumps 32% to $13.5B in Q1

Overall, AWS generated 12% of Amazon’s total revenue in the first quarter of 2021 and about 47% of its profit. Read more.

Has Intel’s FlexRAN Met Its Match With Qualcomm?

Qualcomm claims the reference design for its 5G open RAN silicon will overlap and complement Intel’s FlexRAN reference architecture. Read more.

SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap

VMware boosts its RAN efforts; Apple pledges $430 billion toward U.S. jobs and 5G; and Huawei targets its cloud rivals. Stream Now.