It provides visibility and analysis for telcos as they move toward "cloudification."

Nokia opens a multi-cloud design center; VMware releases AWS Greengrass on vSphere; Qualcomm starts a 5G Initiative in China.

50 percent of central offices will have CORD by 2023.

FlexWare is available in more than 200 countries.

Netronome NICs free up CPU for virtual network functions.

Verizon’s Vestberg describes fixed 5G as just a “slice” of the company’s bigger 5G plan.

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The carrier used an enhanced abstraction platform christened OSAM-HA.

The group elected its leadership and determined its working topics.

Verizon's participation is kind of amazing given that half the ONAP code came from AT&T.

Huawei persists despite failures in U.S.; T-Mobile launches NB-IoT plan; Verizon acquires threat hunter.

Rival Viavi viewed as a possible merger partner.

The partnership deploys VNFs on Juniper's branch routers.

Key components include network slicing management and container architecture.

No word on how many employees were laid off.

Some existing licensing models include perpetual, pre-pay, post-pay, pay-per-use, and pay-per-GByte.

The virtual evolved packet core is one of the best working examples of NFV in a mobile operator network.

MEC and CORD are seen as key pillars of next-gen network architectures.

NTT is a key proponent of PON virtualization but other operators are interested too.

The FCC's Ajit Pai cancels visit to CES; Elliot completes Gigamon purchase; InfoVista and Ericsson sign interoperability initiative.

Virtualization becomes a bigger part of 5G discussion.

NFV gets into networks via SD-WAN, turnkey software stacks, and proprietary systems.

Qualcomm rejects Broadcom board nominees; Ericsson, Vodafone complete pre-standard 5G test; CENX signs Open API Manifesto.

The vCPE software market is expected to grow at a 68.3 percent CAGR.