AT&T Business will become IBM’s primary provider of SDN and IBM will help AT&T improve and migrate its business applications to IBM Cloud.

VMware took first with 22% of in-use SDN revenue and Cisco second with 19%. Arista, white box vendors, and Huawei rounded out the top five.

Coherent technology allows you to send optical signals over long distances, such as between two data centers in a city, or even across a country.

The ONEx technology uses a patented algorithm designed to improve the exchange and transmission of data across global enterprise networks.

Acacia, an existing Cisco supplier, makes high-speed optical interconnect products for cloud and service providers and data center operators.

The updates ensure interoperability between a 3GPP-defined management system and ETSI’s NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) system.

CenturyLink also connects to Microsoft Azure and Equinix expands its collaboration with IBM Cloud to support hybrid cloud deployments.

The joint product, which combines AT&T multi-access edge compute services and HPE’s converged edge systems, targets customers in manufacturing, healthcare, and stadiums.

The vendor also introduced a new high-end, mission-critical storage platform called Primera. It comes with a 100% availability guaranteed.

The enhanced performance now matches that of its hyperscaler-focused Tomahawk line, though the vendor hinted at performance update to that chip coming soon.

The acquisition follows a spate of recent silicon vendor acquisitions and comes as Intel exited the 5G business — and reportedly lost a bidding war with rival Nvidia for

Cisco kicked off Cisco Live with a series of updates to its intent-based networking architecture to resolve IT challenges across every domain of the network.

The vendor also launched a new security program that builds on its earlier Design For Security process, which tests each product prior to commercial release.

The companies won’t reveal the purchase price, but Cisco has paid billions for IoT startups in the past.

BT will use Juniper’s Contrail SDN, AppFormix monitoring software, and QFX Series ethernet switches.

The U.S. government’s crackdown on Huawei is starting to impact its involvement in standards-defining bodies and open source communities.

The group released the draft of its SD-WAN service definition standard, with the official publication of the standard expected in July following board approval.

“If I have a threat space that is bounded and measurable, why wouldn’t you go whole hog after it? That is precisely what zero trust and microsegmentation does,” says

For the test, Pluribus created an SDN fabric across the three edge sites with two network slices to show the impact latency has on application performance.

The new E-LAN services are MEF CE (carrier Ethernet) 2.0 certified and available in almost 300 markets.

Cisco's expanded push into 5G and WiFi 6 is leading the vendor into wider opportunities outside of its traditional domain.

The India-based provider already has two SD-WAN services: one based on its own application-aware WAN technology and another based on Versa Networks tech.

MEF’s Dan Pitt on how the forum is accelerating the availability of automated, multi-technology services through the abstraction of lifecycle service orchestration.

Juniper’s Julius Francis discusses how open source must evolve and consider security, operationalizing, management, and monetization to serve use cases and customers.