Fortinet celebrated a strong Q4 by announcing a partnership with colocation provider Equinix and launching its smallest SD-WAN appliance

Cisco announced it had 20,000 SD-WAN customers spread across its Viptela and Meraki SD-WAN platforms

Gartner's latest WAN Edge Magic Quadrant report has VMware and Silver Peak leading that market in 2019, while Cisco and Riverbed have slipped

MEF unveiled the first standardized definition for SD-WAN

Despite touting the advanced nature of its factory and the fact that it will be 'operational in early 2020,' Ericsson has not yet said where that factory will be

The vendor last year said it would open a software development center and ASIC design center in Austin, Texas

The project brings together data scientists and software engineers

The move is the latest step in broader roll out of DNA and software subscription models

Talari inherited its WAN optimization technology by acquiring an unknown vendor

Cisco's plans to give Ericsson 'space' hints at vendor's current struggles

Juniper to cut 6% of company and will also drop its ADC ambitions as CEO Shaygan

The wildcard is how long it takes all of this to play out

In contrast to Google's experience, top SDN startups Nicira and BigSwitch both warned of limitations in the useful domain of SDN applications

The announcement is significant in that two industry giants are throwing significant weight behind OpenFlow

BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol, who just landed $21 million in financing and whose company has an interesting vision for the future of the internet advertising industry