Microsoft warned of election attacks; VMware aspires to join cool kids Kubernetes klique; and Ericsson sound the open RAN security alarm.

Cisco tackled rural broadband; SK Telecom tapped Samsung, Intel, and HPE to speed NFV for 5G; and T-Mobile belittles U.S. 5G.

The new routing chip is built on a 7-nanometer manufacturing process and is aimed at high-line rate use cases including data center interconnect, edge routing, and disaggregated routing.

Pandey explained his departure from Nutanix; T-Mobile’s 5G core snagged Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia; and AWS, GCP, Microsoft dominated Gartner’s cloud quadrant.

Cisco and MuralNet's tribal network program gives rural areas an opportunity to build and deploy fixed-wireless access networks.

Outside of the top three, Gartner placed Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, IBM, and Tencent Cloud in that order within the “niche players” box.

“Imagine the first grade all happening on Zoom,” Pandey said. “It’s pretty extraordinary stuff. This pandemic is also a once-in-a-lifetime thing,”

Versa has announced a series of service provider partnerships tailored for small-to-midsized businesses of late.

The updated Modular Smart Arrays enable automatic tiering and eliminate common causes of downtime via a new Health Check tool.

Samsung, Verizon 5G deal sealed Nokia's doom; Nutanix extended HCI to Microsoft Azure; and Chef sold its DevOps kitchen to Progress.

The agreement effectively marks the end of Nokia’s long established RAN contract with Verizon in a shakeup that could be one of the most significant vendor losses in a

The new Microsoft partnership comes about a month after Nutanix landed a similar service with Amazon Web Services.

Chef CEO Barry Crist had previously admitted that the firm was being “highly impacted” by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Nokia’s new CEO confronted complacency; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes from August.

Verizon boosted 5G security; VMware, NSF offered up a $6M sustainable IT prize; and Huawei’s global footprint shrank.

The partnership will see Ekinops deploy its OneOS operating system on Lanner's Atom-based universal CPE appliances.

Cisco Security exec sang a SASE security tune; AT&T talked open source; and Netskope, VMware, and CrowdStrike shared threat information.

The new program looks to academia for fresh ideas and a new generation of sustainable digital infrastructure.

While the optical vendor saw robust revenues in Q3, executives warned that softening orders could hamper the optical market in Q4.

Lenovo expanded its HCI ThinkAgile portfolio with Nutanix, Microsoft, and VMware for post-pandemic support as remote work becomes the new normal.

Jeff Reed, SVP and GM of Cisco's cloud and network security business, brings expertise in enterprise routing and security to the converged cloud-delivered architecture.

Telefónica tapped AWS for 5G core virtualization; Volterra pushed security to the API layer; and Open RAN expected to skyrocket by 2025.

DevOps and security teams can use VoltMesh to provide zero trust networking and security services at every distributed cluster but with centralized management, visibility, and policy control.

“I view Telefónica as a leader in the European market on this front,” analyst Will Townsend said.