“If [Nokia was] on the verge of negotiating a massive 5G contract with Verizon, you’d have to believe that it would be” more than $500 million, analyst Ryan Koontz

“We invented what we believe to be the third socket in data centers,” said Pradeep Sindhu, CEO and co-founder of Fungible.

“Everybody thought we were important, everybody wanted us to be around, but nobody was willing to put the dollars in to make it a commitment quickly enough for that

VMware pushed Kubernetes automation; Amazon promised a hiring spree; and IBM went all in on AI.

The vendor's CloudVision platform offers customers an alternative to on-premises monitoring and management.

Early benchmarks show ThunderX3 performing 30% better in single-threaded workloads and up to 300% better in multi-threaded workloads compared to ThunderX2.

Megaport Virtual Edge hosts Cisco’s SD-WAN, Red Hat’s OpenShift 4.5 update gains more management, automation is set to boost operator opex.

The new chips boast 30% higher performance per core and support for low latency shared memory across multiple servers.

The scaled-down push is targeted at moving OpenShift out of the data center and public cloud environments and into edge environments.

It’s part of a new product called Megaport Virtual Edge that hosts NFVs — such as Cisco SD-WAN — on Megaport’s global SDN platform.

“Automation doesn’t mean people will become obsolete, but it does mean a changing workforce,” said Matt Walker of MTN Consulting.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; VMware scored a Dish 5G deal; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

AT&T presents a contradictory social justice position, Amazon Braket attempts to quell quantum computing costs, and Google has added free COVID-19 datasets.

Cisco Q4 gets hit by COVID-19, T-Mobile detailed its $40 billion network upgrade plans, and Intel unveiled its 10-nanometer transistor technology.

China Mobile has deployed 180,000 5G base stations, followed by about 110,000 by China Telecom and 100,00 by China Unicom.

The consortium will define how SASE products should behave, rather than how they should be implemented.

The vendor will increase its investment in cloud technologies, and it’s also leaning into everything-as-a-service.

“I’ve never had this level of production in terms of radio upgrades and programs running through the team,” T-Mobile's president of technology Neville Ray said.

Verizon is ready to hit its 5G switch, Juniper sprinkles AI across its Aps, and SASE startup Perimeter 81 a scores $40M Series B.

The four new access points all take advantage of Mist updates announced last month.

The third version of Akraino includes six new blueprints focusing on use cases for telecommunications, enterprise, and IoT.

The feat will primarily be achieved via software, namely dynamic spectrum sharing.

“Our goal is really to disrupt and change the way networking and security are consumed,” CEO Amit Bareket said.

Black Hat looks into election security, Nutanix’s HCI lands on AWS, and Equinix expanded its data center footprint into India.