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The gear features the Swedish vendor’s next-generation custom silicon, which it now calls Ericsson Silicon. Read more.

Shekar Ayyar, who is an EVP and GM for VMware’s Telco and Edge Cloud, is linking with the newly formed AdMY Technologies to invest in telecom, 5G, and edge businesses that could help VMware’s telecom and edge plans. Read more.

Kong raised $171 million through four funding rounds to bolster its universal service mesh, and tripled its valuation to $1.4 billion since its Series C. Read more.

Early 5G hype focused on mmWave because it can deliver gigabit-plus speeds, lower latency, and fantastical use cases, but the economics don’t bear out and are unlikely to until later this decade. Read more.

The top White House cybersecurity official said the alleged Russian hackers compromised at least 100 companies, and President Joe Biden plans to take executive action in response. Read more.

SD-WAN will be critical for driving the adoption of SASE, but long term its relevance will fade as routing joins security in the cloud and at the edge. Read more.

"We’re not going to be running in the first city. We’ll be crawling and then hopefully we’ll get up and be walking by the end of the year," Dish's Charlie Ergen said. Read more.