A recent Dell’Oro report found that the prevalence of 5G has triggered strong growth within the NFV market, specifically with cloud native VNFs.

The South Korean telco provider will use blockchain for asset management and digital real-name authentication. It is also forming a cryptocurrency hub to create social value and resources around

One customer’s servers now run about 160 hours per month instead of 740 hours per month, saving about $18,000.

The small cell platform supports interface splits between the central unit and the remote radio head, which means operators can use it for fronthaul.

President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that he and Chinese President Xi were in talks to resolve, or potentially lessen, the ban imposed on the Chinese firm last month.

NTT DoCoMo and NEC also trialed data transmission between a 5G base station and a 5G mobile station using a car moving at 189 mph.

The telecom will cut costs and employees as it attempts to evolve its legacy networks and fend off regulatory impact.

The Chinese firm has halted all manufacturing in its factory after being banned from using components made in the U.S. for the next seven years.

The ODTN project has some overlap with OpenConfig and TIP, but differs from the AT&T-led OpenROADM project.

Groups like the ORAN Forum, Cisco’s Open vRAN initiative, and TIP’s OpenRAN Group are all working to virtualize the RAN. The Linux Foundation has kept its distance, so far.

The group is working on several different projects focused on spectrum, 5G standards, regulations, and infrastructure.

ZTE might look to judicial remedies after the U.S. ban; Huawei lays off its Washington, D.C. liason; and Twitter bans ads from Kaspersky Labs.

The FCC wants to ban any spending from the Universal Service Fund on networking equipment that could pose a security threat.

New government restrictions over VPN usage may have an impact on SD-WAN providers that aren’t working with state-approved providers.

NetElastic’s software is tailored to telecom operators, not enterprises, and can scale quickly to handle networks with terabits of traffic.

The SD-WAN network will connect more than 20 Hall and Prior nursing home locations in Western Australia and New South Wales.

Step up or get out of the way, say the operator board members of ONF, including AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, Deutsche Telekom, NTT Group, Telefonica, and Turk Telekom.

The vendor says current IT-based container platforms are not robust enough. Knitter includes multiple network planes, static application IP address migration, and configurable IP resources.

The focus is to reduce fronthaul and backhaul costs by using Ethernet-based networking and virtual networking in the fronthaul, the BBUs, and the remote radio heads.

It harks back to the age-old preference for one controller over another.

The next step is to integrate with SDN controller as part of ECOMP.

Broadcom offers to sweeten the pot with $1.5B for engineer training.

The new programmable chipset nears Shannon's limit in terms of performance.

ZTE has its own customized NFVi layer built on OpenStack.