Minorisa’s main reason for switching from Cisco and MikroTik to 6WIND and white box hardware was the higher throughput and the ability to transition to SDN.

Adtran, Dell EMC, Edgecore Networks, and Juniper Networks joined the ONF at the partner level in which they each pay $500,000 per year for five years.

With ARM, NXP, Marvell, and Cavium, Telco Systems is focusing on the development of performance acceleration, containerization of VNFs, and cybersecurity.

The FCC repeals net neutrality; Intel finds a way to monetize 5G; and AT&T closes on its Time Warner deal.

InfoVista’s VNF will be added to Huawei’s open SD-WAN service to support application monitoring and delivery capabilities, WAN optimization, and analytics.

It’s a full OpenStack suite including compute, storage, networking, and the virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) layer. It comprises an end-to-end NFVi platform.

The managed SD-WAN service allows BT’s enterprise customers to design, deliver, and evolve their SD-WAN. It improves upon BT's previous attempt to bootstrap old Cisco routers and IWAN to

A recent Dell’Oro report found that the prevalence of 5G has triggered strong growth within the NFV market, specifically with cloud native VNFs.

Russians exploit routers for cyber attacks, alerts Cisco; ZTE shutters manufacturing following U.S. ban; CA Technologies cuts 800 jobs as it shifts to a subscription-based, agile model.

Strategy Analytics predicts the combined entity will boost adoption by 17 percent compared with the two continuing on their own.

The goal is to make it easier to connect SD-WAN controllers and edge devices from different vendors.

Intel and WindRiver contribute code to the OpenStack project; ETSI Open Source MANO issues Release Four; Samsung creates new silicon technology for high-performance computing.

The hyperconverged platform combines Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 and Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 into one product.

Many of the groups working on edge computing are associated with telco networking. But edge computing is definitely not limited to telco networks.

Operators are moving aggressively to tighten their use of OpenStack and Kubernetes to bolster cloud deployments.

Its enthusiasm for the VIO 5 product stands in contrast to the OpenStack 2017 Summit where it seemed many people weren’t even aware that VMware had an OpenStack distribution.

Red Hat enhances its virtualization game; HPE releases AI and ML suite for telcos; CA Technologies gets stamp of approval from U.S. Department of Defense.

Vendors that want to sell to Telefónica’s Unica must get their VNFs certified and comply with OSM.

The ODTN project has some overlap with OpenConfig and TIP, but differs from the AT&T-led OpenROADM project.

The new NVMe-based storage array has built-in machine learning that uses predictive analytics and pattern recognition to improve storage performance.

Automation and virtualization reduce costs and time to market for new services. And software allows companies to moving to an “everything-as-a-service” business model.

ADVA is not part of ONAP, but it wants to support carriers like Verizon that are committed to the platform.

5G trials from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Waco, Texas, have helped the company fine-tune its commercial deployment plans.

iconectiv has already created unique codes for more than 1,000 virtual network functions.