In its annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report, Sonatype sheds light on alarming trends in open source software (OSS) and supply chain security.

"We still have a ratio I would say of 75% of service providers have selected to use our cloud stack,” Ericsson's Monica Zethzon said.

A new report compiled by Endor’s Station 9 research team – and reviewed CISOs at leading tech companies – outlines risks introduced through open-source components throughout the software development

“SD-WAN was primarily done for outside the cloud, to marry multiple different types of transports and not about optimizing the cloud,” Amir Khan said.

The updates glean insight from VMware’s ongoing carrier deployment work, including experience from the ongoing Dish Network 5G deployment.

The update also tightens integration between OpenStack and OpenShift.

The promise of 5G hinges on adoption of cloud-native technologies and specifically Kubernetes as enterprise 5G momentum will stumble without a cloud-native platform.

Open source is making an impact on the software layer of 5G networks, but the vision for open source networking is much more grandiose.

A look at how open source intersects with SD-WAN, how openness could help, and whether open source will come to the networking tech.

Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2019: reflections of an industry in transition.

Can applying NFV and SDN principles to a telco organization yield better results?

Will the NFV legacy trip up telcos’ leapfrog into containers?

Try as you might, there’s no avoiding 5G (real and fake), IoT, SD-WAN, or AI.

A collaborative approach from service providers might yield better results than one that seeks to disempower the vendors.

Service meshes could displace many L4-7 networking functions. But will they?

DPDK has extended its reach beyond packet processing and could be a universal API for other acceleration functions needed for effective NFV.

Achieving standard, commodity uCPEs will be a longer journey than anticipated.

It's been more than six years since NFV became a reality but for service providers the transformation is far from over.

European test lab EANTC tested several SD-WAN vendors solutions and compared their scalability and performance.

WiFi, fixed access, and satellites are promising technologies that operators should consider as viable alternatives to fiber or microwave for 5G backhaul.

From Adtran to ZTE, cable and telco vendors alike are beginning to reap the benefits of SDN and virtualization with the development of software-defined access solutions and propositions.

SDN technologies are diverse, making it difficult for network engineers to know what technologies they should learn to master.

Newly released SDxCentral 2018 report on the VNF Ecosystem finds SD-WAN and vCPE are top use cases for NFV and the driving force behind service providers virtualizing their networks.

SDN and NFV are a reality today, but is it the reality that the industry wanted? It's up to the SDN community to set realistic expectations and be candid