Statements from the following verified business professionals were used to create this chart:
Title |
Company Size |
Industry |
Response |
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System Administrator |
Global 500 |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Important
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Network Engineering Director |
Medium Enterprise |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Extremely important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Extremely important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Extremely important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Extremely important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Important
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Network/IPv6 Architect |
Large Enterprise |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Extremely important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Extremely important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Extremely important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Extremely important
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Project Manager |
Small Business |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Extremely important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Extremely important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Extremely important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Extremely important
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|
Chief Information Officer (CIO) |
Small Business |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Important
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|
Chief Information Officer (CIO) |
Medium Enterprise |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Extremely important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Important
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Network Architect |
Medium Enterprise |
Service Provider |
- Multi-tenant solution: Somewhat important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Somewhat important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Not important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Extremely important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Not important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Not important
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|
Network Administrator |
Small Business |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Not important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Not important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Somewhat important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Extremely important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Not important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Not important
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|
Network Administrator |
Small Business |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Important
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|
IT Manager |
Fortune 500 |
Telecommunications Services |
- Multi-tenant solution: Somewhat important
- Implement real-time defense against new attacks: Important
- Comprehensive APIs for configuration management and control: Somewhat important
- Supports a distributed /edge architecture: Important
- Scale to handle carrier-level traffic volumes and future growth: Extremely important
- Available in virtual form factor (VNFs): Important
- Available in container form factor (cloud native): Somewhat important
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