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January 24, 2023, 11:10 AM EST

While the carrier’s consumer business has struggled in recent quarters, Verizon’s Business segment, led by SMB growth, helped the company close out its fiscal 2022 year on a strong note.

From private 5G, SASE and IoT upstarts that are carving out their own niches at the edge, to the networking incumbents getting in on the action, here are 10 of the hottest edge computing companies that solution providers should keep their eyes on this year.

The SASE specialist has nabbed Check Point’s channel chief of four years, Frank Rauch, who will lead the partner ecosystem as the company aggressively builds out its own channel team to capture more global business.

December 21, 2022, 11:32 AM EST

Born from an MSP organization, three-year-old For2Fi is seeing nearly 50 percent increases in revenue year on year as the 100 percent channel-focused company nabs business away from the broadband providers with its managed business LTE and 5G services that can get up and running in hours, not weeks.

“[Scott] is a tried-and-true channel person, and so I think it’s great for Nextiva to have someone who is a pro-channel advocate and has depth of experience in this channel,” one longtime Nextiva partner told CRN on the latest appointment.