The SD-WAN network will connect more than 20 Hall and Prior nursing home locations in Western Australia and New South Wales.

The collaboration will look to integrate Virtual Optical Line Termination Hardware Abstraction software with the Open Networking Automation Platform. The work builds on AT&T's work with passive optical networking

The company evaluated about three different SD-WAN products before deciding to use Silver Peak for its SD-WAN and EdgeConnect WAN optimization.

The expansion is in response to growing market demand for network intelligence.

This is in addition to TPx's current VeloCloud-based platform.

EOLO built a custom SDN routing appliance for deployment at radio towers.

It's targeted at customers that primarily use public broadband connections.

Verizon’s Vestberg describes fixed 5G as just a “slice” of the company’s bigger 5G plan.

The carrier used an enhanced abstraction platform christened OSAM-HA.

Huawei persists despite failures in U.S.; T-Mobile launches NB-IoT plan; Verizon acquires threat hunter.

NTT is a key proponent of PON virtualization but other operators are interested too.

Verizon said its tests have shown it can get coverage in partial line of sight scenarios.

Retailer says SD-WAN costs are about one-third the price of MPLS.

It conforms with MEF’s SD-WAN terminology.

The balloon-based connectivity project is working with AT&T.

SD-WAN is the first service offered on the platform.

Deployment is said to be one of the largest for the Juniper routers.

Cost savings is not a selling point of SD-WAN in Australia.

S-Net Communications uses Versa’s SD-WAN.

The bundles are based on the previously announced managed SD-WAN offering provided by Versa.

Report suggests a significant 5G backhaul market for optical networking.

The news comes after a month-long bidding war between PNI and Vector Capital.

Virtualization makes repairs easier but does not eliminate labor costs.

ADVA has been on a streak of bolstering its optical networking and virtualization platforms.