Huawei enhances its storage platform; Orange and Siemens partner on industrial IoT; Equinix completes $804 million acquisition of Metronode.

The time for researching NFV is over for some end-users who are either moving forward to the trial phase or dropping the technology, at least for the time being.

RAD's vAccess allows operators to use white boxes with VNFs over whatever access infrastructure they have installed.

Riverbed CEO retires; Manoj Leelanivas returns to Juniper; and Microsoft reorganizes.

The organization has more than 60 ongoing initiatives tied to its 3.0 framework and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) efforts. These include a multi-vendor software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) implementation.

Telefónica collaborates with Microsoft Azure on IoT; B.Yond joins the Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation; Openwave Mobility launched a 5G telco cloud database.

NEC/Netcracker will wrangle myriad vendors of hardware and software along with some open source code.

ARM is also targeting the telco central office, working with such open source groups as the Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD).

A big driver for using next-generation technologies was improved capabilities to configure, troubleshoot, and measure data center networks.

After completing its merger with Elfiq Networks, Martello launched an SD-WAN and is putting its scalability to the test with Canada’s Center of Excellence in Next-Generation Networks.

NetElastic’s software is tailored to telecom operators, not enterprises, and can scale quickly to handle networks with terabits of traffic.

TM Forum and the Linux Foundation team up for APIs; Ericsson and Ambra Solutions build underground LTE network; Dell Technologies takes a step further to connected vehicles.

The two platforms were used together during a demonstration to show an ability to run ONAP on any public, private, or hybrid cloud.

ETSI NFV and OPNFV co-locate their testing events; Telefónica and Huawei partner on big data; Canada jumps toward 5G standardization.

The vendor says current IT-based container platforms are not robust enough. Knitter includes multiple network planes, static application IP address migration, and configurable IP resources.

The latest update is extensive and comes as the project is under the shadow of an impending merger with five other hosted networking projects within the Linux Foundation.

Dell EMC today rolled out an open universal CPE platform designed to support multiple virtual network functions and software-defined wide area networking.

Things that fell apart are coming together again.

ETSI MEC is working with ETSI NFV to determine how to deploy MEC in an NFV environment.

The focus is to reduce fronthaul and backhaul costs by using Ethernet-based networking and virtual networking in the fronthaul, the BBUs, and the remote radio heads.

The companies claim the PoC was the first to show two-way control.

It harks back to the age-old preference for one controller over another.

Leveraging different hardware ingredients to achieve this, InfoVista partnered with ZTE and Nuage Networks.

ZTE has its own customized NFVi layer built on OpenStack.