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Now that all Cisco employees work remotely, it sees more than 170,000 remote network connections daily across 96 countries and 498 cities. Read more.

The deal adds a virtual evolved packet core element to Microsoft's already established cloud-based 5G moves. Read more.

The spike in investment represents nearly a 41% increase from Huawei’s previous guidance for the year. Read more.

"The old way of growing the bandwidth of fiber is going to be increasingly difficult," said Dell’Oro analyst Jimmy Yu. Read more.

For every positive associated with low-, mid-, and high-band spectrum, there are just as many negatives. Read more.

Converged IT and OT security platforms are one way that service providers and security vendors are addressing these challenges. Read more.

With the development of new 5G hardware, many vendors are shifting their focus to more flexible options from chipmakers like Intel and Marvell. Read more.

The promise of 5G hinges on adoption of cloud-native technologies and specifically Kubernetes as enterprise 5G momentum will stumble without a cloud-native platform. Read more.