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Is Rakuten the Best or Worst Example of Open RAN?

Rakuten's successes and mistakes are being magnified because hundreds of network operators and vendors are looking at Rakuten as an open RAN example. Read more.

White House Cyber Chief at RSA: ‘Cost of Insecure Tech Is Staggering’

Building security into the software design process will save “thousands of dollars,” White House advisor Anne Neuberger said during an RSA Conference keynote. Read more.

AT&T Sheds Misbegotten Media Assets, Doubles 5G Buildout

“We plan to continue the momentum in our mobility business by stepping up our investment in our wireless network," AT&T CEO John Stankey said. Read more.

McAfee Unites XDR, SASE at RSA Conference

This allows McAfee’s XDR platform to correlate all of the telemetry that its SASE technologies collect to find more threats, and thus boost its automated investigation and response. Read more.

Microsoft, CrowdStrike Lead Gartner’s Power-Packed EPP Quad

That lead could be important as Gartner predicts that cloud-delivered EPP will account for 95% of deployments by the end of 2023. Read more.

Semiconductor Revenues Surge Despite Pandemic, Shortage

Semiconductor revenues rebounded from 2019's 12% decline and grew 10% to $464 billion in 2020, according to a recent IDC report. Read more.

Arista Targets Stock Exchange With Latest Switch Update

The updates promise to simplify the deployment and management of low-latency networking in applications like high-frequency trading. Read more.