Daily Roundup: Cisco Security Soars, Infrastructure Slips

In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletters to get these stories in your inbox. In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletters to get these stories in your inbox. 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 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 came out on top in overall performance, but Azure stood out as the best storage, and AWS for the best latency response. Read more. 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. 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.