7 Layers: MWC Barcelona 2023 Review
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
Industry trade group GSMA stated that more than 88,000 people attended its recent MWC Barcelona 2023 event, a number that might be hard to verify but seems legitimate considering the masses of people spread throughout the multiple halls of Barcelona’s cavernous Gran Via. While attendance might not have matched the 109,000 people GSMA said had attended the last pre-Covid event in 2019, many in attendance were still amazed by the strong turnout for the mobile telecommunication industry’s largest annual event. On this week’s SDxCentral 7 Layers podcast, I am joined by Reporter Julia King to take ..read more
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7 Layers: Open RAN Security Stance a Sensitive Situation
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
The open radio access network (RAN) market recently gained significant U.S. government support when Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel touted open RAN as a way for operators to circumvent network equipment from China-based vendors like Huawei and ZTE. Specifically, Rosenworcel noted the ability for open RAN technology to provide operators with greater access to more secure networking equipment. “In the long run, these systems can help diversify the technology in our networks and grow the market for more secure 5G equipment,” she stated during a speech at a C ..read more
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7 Layers: Check Point VP Unpacks the Latest in Cloud Security, AI, ChatGPT
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
In this episode of the 7 Layers podcast, TJ Gonen, VP of Cloud Security at Check Point sat down with SDxCentral Editor Nancy Liu to delve into the ever-changing world of cloud security – specifically emerging trends in the evolution of the cloud threat landscape. Furthermore, we will explore how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, such as ChatGPT, are being utilized to enhance cloud security, and discuss the most promising AI and ML-based cloud security solutions. Check Point Research recently reported a 48% year-over-year increase in cloud-b ..read more
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7 Layers: VMware Focused on Open Source Interaction, ML Security
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
Chip Childers has been at VMware for six months, during which time he has focused on steering the vendor’s use and interaction of open source software platforms and refining its approach to supporting those efforts. These are significant areas of interest for VMware and for Childers’ role as VP and chief open source officer at the vendor, which is increasingly interacting with the open source community. “For projects that VMware hosts, we want to make sure that we're very welcoming to participants that want to collaborate with us, but also how do we engage in a really authentic way with open s ..read more
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7 Layers: 5G Open Innovation Lab Links Edge Ecosystem Opportunities
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
The 5G Open Innovation Lab is looking to help telecommunication operators and enterprises tap into the rapidly growing cloud and software developer ecosystem they know they need to tap into to reach their digital transformation goals. Jim Brisimitizis, general partner at 5G Open Innovation Lab, explained that these efforts involve his organization acting as a central contact point between these industry segments, a task lightened by the group’s list of big-name segment players. The 5G Open Innovation Lab was established in early 2020, and included founding partners Intel, NASA, and T-Mobile US ..read more
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7 Layers: 5G Open Innovation Lab Links Edge Ecosystem Opportunities
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
The 5G Open Innovation Lab is looking to help telecommunication operators and enterprises tap into the rapidly growing cloud and software developer ecosystem they know they need to tap into to reach their digital transformation goals. Jim Brisimitizis, general partner at 5G Open Innovation Lab, explained that these efforts involve his organization acting as a central contact point between these industry segments, a task lightened by the group’s list of big-name segment players. The 5G Open Innovation Lab was established in early 2020, and included founding partners Intel, NASA, and T-Mobile US ..read more
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7 Layers: Dell Focused on Open 5G Sanity
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
Dell Technologies’ Dennis Hoffman has spent the past three years refining his company’s growing focus on the 5G telecommunications space. A refinement that has been bolstered by the growing adoption of open and cloud-native architectures that Dell Technologies has been infusing throughout its broader ecosystem. “We've been focused almost exclusively from the beginning on helping people embrace open network architectures and monetizing them,” Hoffman said in an interview with SDxCentral. Hoffman, who is SVP and GM for Dell Technologies’ Telco Systems business, explained that this was an importa ..read more
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7 Layers: Fortinet Sees Nation States Teaming Up With Cybercriminals
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently released its predictions for 2023, highlighting the trend of advanced persistent cybercrime enabling a new wave of destructive attacks at scale, fuelled by cybercrime as a service. In this episode of the 7 Layers, Derek Manky, chief security strategist and VP of global threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs, sat down with SDxCentral editor Nancy Liu to discuss security trends. Manky and the team at the labs have seen cyberattacks become more destructive in nature this year, as well as the emergence of reconnaissance-as-a-service. Ransom-a ..read more
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7 Layers: Juniper Juggles RIC Work
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
The radio access network (RAN) is central to a wireless network deployment. It’s the physical pieces of equipment we all see out in the wild, sometimes standing proudly and showing off its various antennas, sometimes being shy and trying to hide as a pine tree. But as these RAN networks continue to evolve based on the latest 5G standards, they are being pruned by virtualized (vRAN) and open RAN platforms designed to provide easier management and control. The next step in this process is the use of a RAN intelligent controller (RIC) to provide operators with a way to manage these vRAN and open ..read more
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7 Layers: Security, SASE, Private 5G Top SDxCentral Ecosystem Topics in 2022
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by SDxCentral
1y ago
The SDxCentral ecosystem witnessed significant change in 2022, highlighted by ongoing cybersecurity attacks, the proliferation of new networking technologies, and industry changing merger and acquisition activity. Basically, another year at the office. The SDxCentral editorial staff sat down before the year ticked over to discuss what they found to be the biggest news and trends across their respective beats in 2022. While the sound quality might indicate that conversation was secretly recorded, rest assured we all knew what was up. Reporter Tommy Clift led off, touching on the rapid perceptio ..read more
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