AWS purchases a disaster recovery startup; Synchronoss and TBSCASoft build blockchain for telecom operators; Red Hat releases a new version of its enterprise workflow framework.

Bloomberg’s network engineers are using Apstra’s software to gain visibility across the network fabric supporting the building's media production systems.

Equinix’s software-defined interconnection platform now has 13,000 virtual connections, according to CEO Charles Meyers.

The job cuts are planned to begin later this month at 10 of AT&T's operational hubs across the country.

The specific work is on developing a software platform for the RAN Intelligent Controller. That platform code will accelerate the deployment of open source software for the 5G radio

AT&T deploys white box cell-site routers in production; VMware CEO lists his top 3 priorities; Huawei's CFO is arrested.

The technology is still in its infancy with only a handful of vendors shipping products. We expect to see more action in 2019.

The Chinese vendor beat out Cisco, Microsoft, and PTC for the top spot in the analyst firm's IoT Platform Vendor Scorecard.

The launch is the first for a standards-based 5G network in the U.S. and taps AT&T's deep SDN deployments.

Luxtera’s technology integrates high performance optics directly with silicon electronics, bringing what it calls “fiber to the chip” connectivity to speed the transfer of data between servers.

AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said the carrier is at 63 percent SDN control of its network operations that can be virtualized, pushing toward its goal of 65 percent control

Amazon Web Services opens in Sweden; Apple expands across the US; and the Hyperledger project expands its membership.

“SDN is going to be a very broad deployment,” said Telus’ Bryce Mitchell. “We made sure we included SDN within the NFV pods themselves.”

The company was pretty revolutionary with its idea to layer SDN on top of multiple third-party transport before all the SD-WAN vendors conceived of this.

The service provider is hoping to launch a cost-effective uCPE platform that supports more VNFs along with its SD-WAN early next year.

Data center interconnect equipment revenue will increase 85 percent over the next five years, from $2.7 billion in 2017 to $5.1 billion in 2022, according to Dell’Oro Group.

“Most software that’s used for monitoring comes from software companies. We built this software out of operational need and we built it as users of the technology,” said Optanix

Sprint names its first 5G markets for 2019; Telco Systems and Arm work on uCPE; and IBM sells software assets to HCL Technologies for $1.8 billion.

In working with the ONF, Comcast is breaking with a long cable tradition of not sharing technology and innovation ideas with competitors.

Google's compute infrastructure is straining to keep up with data demands. The company is looking for "novel ways" to do more data processing. That might include cluster computing.

In 2019 the company will deploy these routers at several thousand towers to support its mobile 5G network.

This is Barefoot’s second generation release of its P4-programmable Tofino Ethernet switch ASIC family.

A bunch of service providers from around the world are starting to implement ONAP code into their networks.

Cisco slashes jobs in new round of layoffs; what top Cisco executives make; and Germany joins in on Huawei bans.