For its inaugural telecom NFVI report, IDC says an example of orchestration would be ONAP.

The Apache 2.0-licensed project brings openness to access networks, so they can interoperate.

The capacity is correlated with consumption-based pricing, which service providers have been wanting for a long time.

Indianapolis will be the fourth 5G market for the operator, joining Sacramento, Los Angeles and Houston.

The Indian service provider delivers telecommunications services over a telecom network infrastructure reaching more than 1,550 municipalities in India.

The platform will be integrated into VMware's Telco NFV portfolio. This will add automated service assurance capabilities to support virtual network function deployments.

"SoftBank trusted us in 2016, and we’ve been working with them as partners ever since," says Frinx's CEO. "Folks say it is very important who your first customer is.”

Nutanix President Sudheesh Nair exits to become CEO of a startup; CenturyLink's VP of SDN leaves; Ariel Dan promoted to Cloudify CEO.

The Swedish firm reported an operating profit of $23 million. It’s the first time since the third quarter 2016 that the company has reported a profit.

The blockchain service is a part of Oracle's Cloud Platform and is built on The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger blockchain fabric.

Some companies and governments are now offering as much as $250,000 to find and fix security flaws, according to the Hacker-Powered Security Report.

Programmable chips will play a key role in 5G networks because complex processing will be necessary in the baseband and the base station.

Its vision is to replace the hardware, software, and services that operators have traditionally gotten from telecom vendors such as Cisco and Dell EMC.

A former Huawei employee says he was fired for refusing to use a fake company name to gain access to the private TIP gathering. Huawei says this is just

The program is intended to bring together open source products that can quickly be deployed by service providers.

Wireless carriers say not being able to use Huawei equipment would “gravely impair” their ability to do business. And they can’t afford to “rip and replace” their equipment.

The vendor has seen around 20 percent growth per quarter over the past two quarters across its enterprise, webscale, and cable TV markets.

The sudden absence of a major telecom vendor has caused some big ripple effects. For instance, ZTE pulled out of Mobile World Congress in Shanghai this week.

Cavium, Nutanix, and Equinix are all customers using the security company’s predictive breach-risk platform.

The lawmakers claim Google is “more willing to support the Chinese Communist Party than the U.S. military.”

EE's current 5G trial plans include just London, while Vodafone's plans include trials in seven markets by year-end.

Adtran, Dell EMC, Edgecore Networks, and Juniper Networks joined the ONF at the partner level in which they each pay $500,000 per year for five years.

The judgment could signal an easier regulatory environment for T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint. Or not.

The fine is set to resolve ZTE's trade violations, but could open the door for China's approval of Qualcomm's pending NXP acquisition.