Joe Cozzolino departs Cisco to join private equity firm; CenturyLink CTO joins the MEF board of directors.

The telecom giant is looking to cut $10 billion in costs from its operations as it positions itself to boost its focus on 5G.

Things aren’t all bad news for Huawei. T-Mobile Poland confirmed that Huawei is the sole vendor supporting its 5G network.

As the uncertainty around Cisco’s Viptela integration lifted last quarter, the enterprise access router market saw its first quarter of growth in five quarters.

The year-old startup, founded by former Intel president Renee James, is also partnering with Packet, Cloudflare, and other companies on 5G and edge computing proof of concepts.

“Nobody gets to keep a lock on cloud computing,” Wasabi CEO David Friend said. “As much as Amazon would like to, it’s going to be a multi-cloud world.”

Huawei's' chief financial officer who is also the daughter of the founder of Huawei, was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States. The reason for the

“Obviously I love my vSAN child. It’s not as important as my NSX child,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said, referring to VMware’s software-defined storage and networking platform, respectively.

Cisco slashes jobs in new round of layoffs; what top Cisco executives make; and Germany joins in on Huawei bans.

The executive team shakeup caps a tumultuous year for the company that recently concluded an internal investigation into financial disclosures and announced plans to cut about 8 percent of

Huawei continues to dominate the worldwide market, with Ciena tops in North America.

The company is working with VMware on the new Amazon Outposts initiative. Considering VMware’s sister company Dell EMC makes hardware, this could have some interesting implications.

“Our dominance in the core is why VMware avoids doing PoCs in accounts when we are in a head-to-head fight,” said CEO Dheeraj Pandey.

The company is building a corporate campus in Sunnyvale, California, to provide a home for its more than 1,000 employees in the Valley.

The company announced AWS Ground Station to ingest and process data from satellites and send it to the AWS cloud.

The company says its newly formed Access Networks organization will help it win 5G contracts and battle against rivals Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, and Samsung.

Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins earned $21.28 million in fiscal 2018.

Earlier this month, Broadcom slashed over 400 jobs from CA Technologies’ offices, just days after it bought the company for $18.9 billion.

AT&T is at 63 percent of its goal to bring 75 percent of its networks under SDN control by 2020, according to AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch.

Sapho develops micro-applications that help connect modern workplace collaboration tools with legacy SaaS products.

The Chinese vendor managed to shrug off procurement challenges during the first half of the year tied to a U.S. government ban on ZTE acquiring components from U.S. manufacturers.

Kurian spent 22 years at Oracle before abruptly resigning last month. Reports quickly surfaced saying that Kurian clashed with CTO Larry Ellison over Oracle’s cloud strategy.

In a year when security startups are raising hundreds of millions in initial public offerings — including Cylance competitor Carbon Black that scored $152 million in its May IPO

At a recent investor conference both AT&T and Verizon said that 5G won’t have an impact on their revenues until at least 2020.