The year that unraveled and continues to highlight the best and worst in all of us ends with all three major U.S. carriers claiming nationwide 5G coverage.

VMware’s ravenous appetite for smaller companies continued this year, and we wouldn’t put it past the virtualization giant to ink another deal or two before the ball drops on

Cisco workers are ‘anxious’ about job cuts; Ciena shared its lessons learned rom Q4; and Orange helped Siemens hit 80% SD-WAN migration.

Rural U.S. carriers most impacted by the “rip and replace” mandate have been lobbying for a government reimbursement to offset the costs of swapping out equipment considered insecure.

The service provider transitioned 80% of Siemens' global network, spanning 1,000 sites in 94 countries, to its Flexible SD-WAN just two years into the six-year contract.

As Ciena looks to put the pandemic behind it, the company is leaning on its 800 Gb/s optics and upcoming pluggables to grow its market share.

Arista added Awake to Attack Surface Assessment; Cisco's security exec jumped ship for Google; and Juniper won a network overhaul deal.

“The only way to get these radios to the market and open ecosystem is by doing our own development," Mavenir's John Baker said.

“We were XDR before XDR was XDR, because we had to pull all the things together in order to enable our own teams to be successful,” Secureworks’ Ed Martin

The new threat hunting and incident response service uses technology from the Awake Security acquisition and identifies risks from devices, users, or third-party systems.

The South Korean media conglomerate has deployed Juniper's switches, access points, and WAN Assurance offerings to bridge the gap between its two offices.

The investment research firm remains just as skeptical as ever about 5G use cases and the difficulty operators will confront in gaining a meaningful return on their 5G investments.

VMware denied a link to the SolarWinds cyberattack; Oracle and Cybereason combine their cloud and security products; and Microsoft is reportedly developing custom silicon for its Azure cloud.

Jeff Reed's move to Google comes after nearly a decade at Cisco.

“We have an approach that looks at the technology as a general-purpose technology for massive digital transformation, especially in the enterprise,” Verizon's Nicki Palmer said.

The partnership will see the cloud provider sell Cybereason’s endpoint security platform, which is optimized for delivery via Oracle’s global cloud regions.

The software giant is reportedly developing an Arm-based server chip for use in its Azure public cloud as well as a consumer-centric chip.

The IP-related ban targets China’s SMIC; Dell continues its HCI domination, but HPE gains; and Rancher Labs taps Kubernetes to simplify HCI.

The analyst group predicts mainstream adoption of 800 Gb/s optics, upgrades to 400 Gb/s line rates across all spans, and wider application of wavelength division multiplexing.

IBM rolled out next-gen encryption; the Linux Foundation debuted its DENT switch; and Cisco confirmed job cuts.

Segments where Nokia can’t achieve leadership as a top three vendor won’t be tolerated for long, CEO Pekka Lundmark warned.

Its greater flexibility is also behind Microsoft’s move toward recommending CAPZ over its legacy AKS Engine product.

Mirantis and Platform9 released their own versions of fully-managed, bare metal orchestration platforms to provide "the best of both worlds."

The first release of the DENT network operating system has arrived with a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy themed title.