The Pentagon appears to be, at least in concept, open to all manner of frameworks and management platforms that would allow its spectrum to be used for 5G deployment.

The partnership dramatically expands the reach of VMware's SD-WAN and secure access service edge offering.

Ericsson grabbed Cradlepoint to boost its enterprise 5G WAN, Ciena CTO talked programable optics for 5G and edge; and AT&T caught the carbon neutral bug.

“Cradlepoint represents a critical segment that will become increasingly important in the 5G era and beyond,” Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm said.

The rise of highly-distributed edge data centers and 5G networks is changing the way vendors think about fiber optic technologies.

AT&T has committed to be carbon neutral by 2035, and is expanding its Climate Change Analysis Tool coverage across the U.S. to build resilience.

AT&T met its SDN goal; Accenture bet $3B on Cloud First expansion; and the COVID-19 crunched the cloud-native ecosystem.

AT&T hit the long sought after target either three months early or nine months late, based on a series of previously contradictory executive statements.

LiveData Migrator is a non-blocking, large-scale method of moving data on premises to the cloud without interruption, WANdisco CEO David Richards explained.

AT&T's CEO warned of rough waters ahead; Snowflake's IPO is forecasted to score $4 billion; and Dell plans job cuts as VMware moves on remote pay cuts.

Extreme's Universal Platform seeks to address the needs of wildly different customers through software personas.

Telefónica will deploy open RAN base stations next year and intends to transition at least 50% of its markets to open RAN by 2025, according to CTO Enrique Blanco.

The announcement marks the first major update to Palo Alto Network's SD-WAN platform since the company acquired CloudGenix in April.

Dimitris Mavrakis, senior research director at ABI Research, called the product a “major breakthrough and significant milestone in the evolution of open RAN.”

VMware drove Tanzu, Kubernetes deeper into its portfolio; 5G open RAN continued to struggle; and Verizon's 5G expansion will beat the next iPhone.

Nvidia's $40 billion Arm acquisition will allow the company to expand into new markets through Arm's expansive licensing program.

“We build 5G right. We want it to be transformative. We don’t want it to be inferior to a 4G network," Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

A new vSphere-Tanzu combo provides enterprises with more flexibility to bring their own networking or storage compared with VMware's Cloud Foundation platform.

“Besides FAANG, the cloud guys, we’re the largest, most interconnected security infrastructure on the internet,” said senior VP Joe DePalo.

Overcoming myriad competing interests to achieve even some open RAN goals is an ongoing challenge with no apparent resolution in sight.

Nvidia took Arm off Softbanks' hands in $40 billion deal; Oracle shared it's KISS cloud strategy; and Dish tapped Nokia for 5G SA core.

The contract marks the sixth vendor selection to date for Dish following previous deals with Altiostar, Fujitsu, Mavenir, VMware, and Matrixx.

T-Mobile detailed its $40B network upgrade strategy; Equinix paid $161M for India data centers; plus the latest VC/M&A news from August.

“The opportunities for us to partner and build an ecosystem with the hyperscale cloud providers is our future to be really honest," Vodafone UK CTO Scott Petty said.