Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, VMware Among ZTNA Leaders, Forrester Says

Five security vendors — Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, VMware, AppGate, and Perimeter 81 — lead the nascent zero trust network access (ZTNA) market, according to Forrester.

Can AI Design Faster, Greener Chips? Synopsys Says Yes

Chip design is an incredibly complex endeavor. So much so that only a handful of companies have found success in this arena. But what if designing a chip didn’t have to be so hard, and could artificial intelligence (AI) be part of the solution?

T-Mobile CEO says hacker used ‘brute force’ attacks in breach

In a new update on Friday, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert looked to reassure customers about a recent major data breach of the carrier’s servers, apologizing and providing a bit of information about what happened as well as steps it is taking to avoid future incidents.

NTIA creates 2 new offices to handle broadband workload

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) established two new offices to handle all its upcoming, additional broadband workload.

VMware CEO sees faster cloud, SaaS growth ahead

VMware’s subscription and software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenue jumped 23% in the company’s fiscal Q2 2022, with CEO Raghu Raghuram tipping growth to accelerate further over the next year as it transitions more of its software products to a cloud-based model.

Multi-gig PON 101: Q&A with AT&T

Fierce’s Multi-gig PON 101 Q&A series digs deep into the high-speed future, aiming to help readers build in-depth knowledge about key technologies and the overall market landscape through progressive interviews with industry experts. This collection will delve into the forces driving operators toward multi-gig PON technology; how XGS-PON and other 10G technologies are helping deliver a new breed of ultra-fast broadband; and what’s coming down the pipe with 25G and beyond.

T-Mobile CEO Apologizes, Pledges Security Improvements

T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert today apologized for the operator’s inability to stop a cyberattack that exposed personal data on at least 54 million people. 

Op-Ed: T-Mobile’s Security Failings Forebode Lasting Enterprise Slump

Speeds and features are important but a mobile network is only as good as its security stature, and T-Mobile US isn’t up to the task. The operator earlier this month suffered a data breach that exposed personal data on at least 54 million people.

Dell Reports Strong Sales Despite Industrywide Supply Shortage

Dell Technologies posted record second-quarter revenues for its fiscal year 2022, despite ongoing concerns over industrywide supply shortages, component cost inflation, and order backlogs. In fact, Dell executives were almost cavalier in their confidence of riding out those challenges.

More Security #Chaos Strikes Microsoft Cosmos

A security flaw in Microsoft’s cloud product left thousands of its customers’ databases vulnerable to attack, according to threat researchers at cloud security startup Wiz.

JMA, ExteNet clock 600 Mbps in stadium DAS

JMA Wireless and ExteNet deployed a mid-band 5G network at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, that enabled download speeds of more than 600 megabits per second (Mbps), all while the 23,300-seat stadium was full of fans.

Honest Networks snags $100M to expand fiber in NYC, Mid-Atlantic

Fledgling fiber provider Honest Networks is looking to spread its reach deeper into the suburbs and across more states using $100 million in fresh funding, expanding beyond a traditional focus on serving multi-dwelling units (MDUs) in New York City.

Nokia scores rip and replace deal with Union Wireless

Another network deal has been announced as U.S. providers undertake the process of removing insecure Huawei and ZTE gear from existing networks.

Policy experts discuss open RAN security issues: Special Report

Open radio access network (RAN) technology has become so high-profile that the Biden administration mentioned it in its official dealings with the leaders of Japan and S. Korea.

TracFone concerns still run high for consumer groups

Correspondence at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the past week underscores that consumer groups are still very much concerned about what happens if TracFone gets acquired by Verizon even though the operator promises to serve the public interest.

AT&T adds sub-6 GHz 5G for enterprise IoT

AT&T is opening up sub-6 GHz 5G access for enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, with managed services on a Cisco provided platform.

IBM gets SASE to speed adoption of zero-trust security

IBM rolled out a suite of new secure access service edge (SASE) offerings alongside Zscaler, aiming to smooth the path for enterprises looking to adopt a zero-trust security posture.

Purdue sets up 6G lab, partners with SBA and Tilson

Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation are looking to advance the development of 6G with a new digital innovation platform, “Labs to Life” (L2L) in the 400-acre Discovery Park District adjacent to the university campus.

U.K. fiber player Trooli gets funding boost on road to 1M homes

U.K. fiber provider Trooli scored £67.5 million (approximately $92.6 million) in fresh funding to help fuel an ambitious fiber-to-the-premises expansion plan.

VMware Subscription, SaaS Revenue Soars 23% to $776M

VMware posted an earnings beat and continued growth in its cloud-delivered software with subscription and software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2022 topping $776 million, an increase of 23% year over year.

Samsung Boosts Foundry Operations, TSMC Jacks Prices

The semiconductor industry’s volatility was on display this week as Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) both made substantial financial announcement.

AT&T Plants 5G on Cisco-Powered IoT Platform

AT&T and Cisco today announced enterprise customers can now use the operator’s 5G network for IoT devices. The update provides IoT devices with lower latency, higher network capacity, and faster speeds.

Daily Roundup: Tech Giants Commit $30B to Cybersecurity

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Verizon’s $2B Green Bonds Power Renewable Energy Projects

Verizon has now allocated nearly $2 billion in green bonds, making it the only U.S. telecom operator to fully issue and allocate two green bonds. 

Aviation industry renews concern about C-band interference

AT&T and Verizon are gearing up to deploy the first tranche of C-band spectrum for 5G later this year, but before they do, groups in the airline and aerospace industry say the carriers need to put short-term solutions in place to avoid harmful interference – or expect major disruptions to air travel, transport, and emergency helicopter operations.

Schools seek $5.1B for broadband from FCC connectivity fund

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revealed plans to open a second application window for Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) support after an initial round elicited an overwhelming response from schools and libraries looking to purchase broadband service and connected devices.

Comcast Business ramps enterprise ambitions with Masergy deal

Comcast Business inked a deal to acquire cloud and software-defined networking company Masergy for an undisclosed sum, seeking to strengthen its ability to serve large enterprises with a global footprint.

Dell’Oro expects RAN market to grow 10-15% in 2021

The radio access network (RAN) market continued to grow in the second quarter despite obstacles like the global pandemic, supply chain shortages and export restrictions, according to Dell’Oro Group.

Mavenir touts open vRAN architecture for 2G

Mavenir on Tuesday touted what the software vendor says is a first – viability of an open vRAN containerized architecture for 2G.

NTIA broadband grant program gets $2.5B in funding requests

The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) warned competition for grants from its Broadband Infrastructure Program (BIP) will be fierce, revealing it received funding requests seeking billions more than it has to offer.

Palo Alto Networks Paves Cybersecurity Career Paths for All

On a mission to make cybersecurity careers accessible for everyone, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) partnered with Palo Alto Networks to launch the Cybersecurity Education and Career Resource Library. The initiative aims to bolster diversity and fill the talent gap in the cybersecurity industry. 

Daily Roundup: Operators Confront Souring Private Networks Position

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Cribl Snags $200M Series C

Observability pipeline vendor Cribl today snapped up $200 million in a Series C funding round led by Greylock and Redpoint Ventures. Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia, and CRV also contributed, pushing the company’s total raised to $254 million.

Tech Giants Commit $30B to Cybersecurity After White House Meeting

Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Apple pledged a combined $30-plus-billion cybersecurity investment following a White House meeting today with U.S. President Joe Biden.

Comcast Business Gobbles Masergy’s Managed SD-WAN

Comcast Business acquired managed SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE) vendor Masergy today in a bid to grow its influence among large and midsized businesses.

IBM Security Expands Zscaler SASE With New Blueprints

IBM Security expanded its secure access service edge (SASE) partnership with Zscaler today, adding new blueprints targeting common business objectives.

Is T-Mobile’s data breach going to hurt subscriber metrics?

T-Mobile was recently hit by a major data breach, with personal information stolen related to more than 50 million current, former, or prospective customers.

Facebook’s Terragraph passes SRG tests with flying colors

Facebook’s desire to connect more people to the internet is well known, and its Terragraph initiative is one way to achieve that. But how does Terragraph perform outside a trial situation? Signals Research Group (SRG) decided to take a look. 

Arista brings cloud-grade routing to the network edge: Kerravala

This week Arista Networks announced an expansion of its cloud-grade routing solutions that extends its products to the edge. Arista has added new features to its EOS operating system to enable its products to be used as edge routers, including new capabilities for virtual private networks (VPN) and traffic engineering.

Indian government causes 5G delays, wants 5Gi

In a first, the Indian government has handed out spectrum for six months to telcos to carry out trials. This was done to help the country's telcos prepare their networks for 5G and develop India-specific 5G use cases.

Lumen’s networking tech will support sustainable data centers

Lumen Technologies is working with Wyoming Hyperscale White Box to launch a development site early next year in Aspen, Wyoming. The site will be used to build a sustainably operated data center.

T-Mobile Business customers also hit by security breach

Mike Katz, executive vice president of the T-Mobile for Business group, made a post on LinkedIn directed at business customers regarding the recent cybersecurity breach.

Consolidated Communications workers agree to new contract

Four unions representing more than 1,000 Consolidated Communications employees in New England have agreed to a new four-year contract to replace the previous contract that expired August 7, 2021.  The new contract includes wage parity for rural workers and better protection against subcontracting. In addition, workers will receive a wage increase.   

Florida utility to expand its broadband network

The Fort Pierce Utilities Authority (FPUA) is expanding its broadband network and has selected Fujitsu Network Communications as the primary broadband integrator for the project, which is part of a neighborhood revitalization initiative intended to promote business growth along the Florida Coast.

Why WAFs Don’t Work According to a Hacker

CISOs take note: if you rely on web application firewalls (WAFs) to secure your web and mobile applications built on APIs, Alissa Valentina Knight can breach your APIs. In fact, she may have already done so.

Operators Confront Souring Private Networks Position

Private cellular networks are a heavy lift with abundant potential that could reframe network operators’ role with enterprises, but that window of opportunity amid the proliferation of 5G is closing, according to ABI Research. 

Arista Pushes Cloud-Grade Routing to Network Edge

Arista updated its routing portfolio to now support edge use cases for multi cloud, edge, and 5G radio access network (RAN) applications.

Daily Roundup: Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Departs

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AWS Vets Managed Security Services Providers

As more organizations move their applications into the cloud, the key challenge is “being able to have the skilled people within their companies that honestly know how to respond to these different incidents that the [security] tools are telling them to,” according to Ryan Orsi, worldwide security/managed security services provider (MSSP) practice lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Ericsson upgrades APT’s network in Taiwan, preps for 5G sharing

Ericsson has helped Asia-Pacific Telecom (APT) deploy the first 5G non-standalone multi-operator core network (MOCN) sharing set up in Taiwan.

Brightstar’s transformation into Likewize reflects on market

Many people will recognize Brightstar as a leader in the mobile phone distribution category, as well as the company founded by Marcelo Claure – before he was ever affiliated with Sprint or SoftBank, of course.

Zayo will deploy 400G network across North America, Europe

Zayo Group is upgrading its transport network and deploying 31 high capacity 400G long-haul routes across North America and Western Europe. The 400G capability will make it possible for Zayo to deliver multi-terabit capacity across its network and provide higher transmission rates, reduced cost per bit and greater bandwidth capacity. The company said it will also result in reduced operational and maintenance costs and a 40% reduction in power consumption.

Managed edge services revenues to top $445.3M this year: IDC

Managed edge services are the next big growth area for public cloud providers, service providers and technology vendors. According to IDC, managed edge services will deliver worldwide revenues of about $445.3 million this year, which is a 43.5% increase over 2020. In addition, the analyst firm forecasts that managed services revenues will hit nearly $2.8 billion in 2025.

Airspan IPO values the company around $700M

Airspan Networks went public on August 13 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called New Beginnings Acquisition (NBA). Airpsan's stock is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "MIMO."

TDS vows to deliver 2-Gbps speeds in all its new markets

TDS Telecom said it will launch 2-Gbps symmetrical broadband services in all of its new markets where it is expanding fiber outside its existing wireline footprint. As part of that announcement, the company said it is now offering 2-Gbps services in Spokane, Washington and Meridian, Idaho.

AT&T marks first 5G connected car deal with GM

AT&T nabbed its first 5G connected car deal, announcing an expanded collaboration with GM that will see 5G-equipped vehicles from the automaker starting with select models by 2024.

Cable and telcos added 890k net broadband subscribers in 2Q

The U.S. market now has more than 107.4 million broadband subscribers, an increase from 102.7 million subscribers from a year ago. According to Leichtman Research Group, the largest cable and wireline providers in the U.S. acquired about 890,000 net additional broadband internet customers in the second quarter, which is a decrease from the pro forma gain of about 1,260,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2020.

Active Assurance for service operations in the 5G and cloud era

In today’s digital economy, when an enterprise is looking to purchase connectivity, they will first think about the characteristics of their applications and then look for a provider that can offer the service level that is able to support their needs. Assuring network service quality for these applications is extremely important because of increasingly strict performance and reliability requirements for real-time and high bandwidth applications.

How 5G Private Networks Are Poised to Transform Enterprises

The combination of 5G deployment and innovation happening at the edge has spawned a series of technological innovations in the public network. Additionally, the speed of the industry’s digital transformation has also increased the need for a network that combines speed with connectivity, computing power, and access to key applications. But for enterprises with diversified requirements for network coverage, reliability, security isolation, data confidentiality, and network control rights, the public network is not the ideal place to operate. Moreover, the digital transformation of the industry means that enterprises looking to be at the forefront need a flexible and agile 5G private network. This leaves many enterprises searching for a one-stop solution that offers full integration, on-demand loading, and overall delivery in the construction of a private network with 5G access. All Scenario Private 5G is one example of a solution that helps operators to realize private 5G as a service.Promising Scenarios Three fields, in particular, demonstrate both the demand for 5G development and ample market space to innovate new private network-based solutions:

Palo Alto Networks Pumps Up Cortex XDR

Palo Alto Networks extended its Cortex XDR platform across more cloud data and added new identity analytics capabilities with the 3.0 version of its extended detection and response (XDR) product.

IBM Bakes AI Into Next-Gen Mainframe Chips

Real-time fraud detection and prevention is just one of several capabilities promised by IBM’s latest mainframe processors. Telum, announced today at Hot Chips 2021, is the company’s first processor to feature integrated acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) inference workloads.

Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Departs

Chip Childers is leaving his leadership position at the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) at the end of this month. Childers has been involved with CFF since its launch in 2015, and spent the last year as executive director.

Cyberattacks Stoke Palo Alto Networks’ Q4 Revenue

Palo Alto Networks celebrated a successful end to fiscal-year 2021 today bringing in $1.2 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter.

Daily Roundup: Oracle Verrazzano Targets Multi-Cloud Container Management

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