Nvidia dethroned Intel in the US chip market; Verizon withheld 5G vendor names; and Google recommitted to CNCF after Istio snub.

The release adds support for Nginx web-server tracing, Redis Enterprise and IBM MQ monitoring sensors, custom dashboards, and role-based access control.

Juniper jumped into SASE with Connected Security; Google irked IBM with Istio; and Nokia dove into the data center market.

Verizon didn’t name any vendors involved in its standalone 5G core, and a spokesperson declined to answer a question about whether Nokia is playing a role in that effort.

Apple already deployed the new platform, and BT Group, Equinix, Team.blue, and Turkcell are interested in or are actively trialing Nokia's switching infrastructure.

“Customers want simplicity, scalability, and flexibility, and moving services to the edge gives them all of that at low latency,” Juniper’s Samantha Madrid said.

Verizon boosted Nokia; Cisco joined AT&T’s SD-WAN lineup ; and Alibaba Cloud expanded its global reach with Equinix.

“By the time we identify the killer app, it will actually be too late,” Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm said.

Synaptics will not only acquire Broadcom's WiFi, Bluetooth, and global positioning system products and businesses, it will also inherit the chipmaker's product roadmap.

The Equinix partnership comes on the heels of Alibaba’s plans to invest $28 billion and hire 5,000 people to boost its cloud platform.

Cisco's Secure SD-WAN offering joins AT&T's own network-based SD-WAN platform and VMware's VeloCloud offering.

The deal will see Verizon go from three RAN vendors to two, including a shocking decision by Verizon to replace all of Nokia’s 4G LTE gear in its network.

Google beat cloud rivals, won a deal with Deutsche Bank; Samsung pledged 5G vRAN by fall; and VMware purchased True Visibility to bolster analytics suite.

F5 bought Shape for $1 billion late last year. Shape’s network blocks more than 1 billion application attacks daily.

Samsung is also preparing to make dynamic spectrum sharing, a standalone 5G core, and network slicing commercially available before the end of the year.

Despite pushing optical technologies closer to the limit, many vendors are facing financial challenges due to the pandemic.

Ericsson rolled out its standalone 5G software; CNCF shook up leadership; and Liberty Mutual served up a serverless success.

“It’s a hot market, we have a hot product, and that automatically makes the company valuable,” said Bitglass CTO and co-founder Anurag Kahol.

2020 has been a doozy and we're only halfway through it.

With the world’s first standards-based mobile 5G networks now up and running for 18 months, the race is on to formally separate 5G as an independent offering.

Cisco revamped its security business under a new name and chief; Alibaba Cloud is set for a hiring spree; and COVID-19 claimed GSMA jobs.

"This is more than someone else's data center. This is a whole new paradigm," noted Liberty Mutual's Dave Anderson on serverless computing.

Hundreds of companies from various market segments have an edge computing offering or strategy, and yet relatively few have cracked the code and built a sustainable edge business.

VMware's buying spree continued with Datrium purchase; AT&T warned of COVID-19 threats; and Ekinops debunked SD-WAN myths.