Telstra’s new API integration with Equinix means its enterprise customers can directly connect to more than 170 service providers.

AT&T’s ongoing network virtualization effort, specifically the amount of core network functions it has moved to SDN, has been tangled in ambiguity.

Anana wanted to automated infrastructure to unify its two data centers and provide more agile service delivery for its customers.

The Open Mobile Evolved Core (OMEC) platform supports connections into the carrier’s existing base stations, mobility management services, and lawful intercept platforms.

“We aim to control 75% of our core network functions with software by the end of 2020 and, by reaching 65% at the end of 2019, we’re nearly there,”

The virtual tour will, however, require users to sign up for a 30-day trial of Juniper's Contrail SD-WAN platform.

Aviatrix's CEO claimed SD-WAN is dead and that AWS killed it; VMware's CEO taunted IBM for paying too much for Red Hat; and AT&T, Sprint, and Cisco execs threw

Billions of dollars changed hands this year as industry giants attempted to bolster their positions in some of the world's most competitive markets.

While 5G and industrial IoT are still years from maturity, that's not stopping companies from investing big in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

“Clearly, Intel realizes that it needs breakthrough performance and efficiency to go up against Nvidia,” noted Moor Insight Analyst Karl Freund.

Exablaze’s field programmable gate array-based devices play into Cisco’s intent-based networking strategy.

The company today said it hired Raj Yavatkar as the new CTO. Like Koley, Yavatkar previously headed cloud networking at Google.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said he expects Carbon Black combined with VMware’s “security-driven value-add” networking and cloud products to be a $1 billion business this year.

Edge computing is a dispersion or distribution of the cloud and latency is the driving force of this evolution, said MEF CTO Pascal Menezes.

“Everybody does automation,” Extreme’s Dan DeBacker said. “But we believe we’re the only ones that have it embedded in the switch.”

MEF’s community has grown about 70% to more than 200 organizations during the last 18 months, and it expects to double that number by the end of 2020.

Technology prototypes tested and validated by the group are now commercially available and being deployed in multiple networks.

Digital Reality dropped billions on European expansion; Ciena closed its acquisition of Centina; plus the latest VC/M&A news from October.

Contrail Insights provides customers with historical and real-time visibility, giving them greater insight into the data center operations.

Digital Realty wants to unseat data center heavyweight Equinix. And it plans to do this by solving what it calls “the data gravity problem.”

In a 100 switch deployment, Pica8's pricing is roughly 98.5% lower than Cisco's, the vendor claims.

Volterra’s SaaS-based platform can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge locations.

AT&T Offloads $1.95B; Cisco Warns IBN Is Coming; AWS Makes It Rain; HPE Takes On VMware; Ex-Cisco Execs Launch Pensando; Is Docker Kubernetes’ Next Victim?

The report is based on a survey of 505 IT leaders and 1,566 network strategists across 13 countries.