Bill Walker, director of network architecture and innovation with CenturyLink, said there are three business cases for NFV. The worst business case is for new technology that is not

Google Cloud lands in Hong Kong; Infinera adds optical network to its open line system; and plenty of news from AWS re:Invent.

The deal will bring storage to Contrail’s multicloud product as well as expand Juniper’s edge computing portfolio.

Two VMware customers, a Texas Education Service Center and a nationwide hospice company, say NSX and vRealize Network helped them secure and manage networks.

AT&T is at 63 percent of its goal to bring 75 percent of its networks under SDN control by 2020, according to AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch.

AWS adds new infrastructure regions; The Linux Foundation launches a lab for SDN projects; ZTE contributes 5G patents to ETSI.

It was the company's second quarter of 50 percent-plus growth in India.

The OpenStack Platform 14 update makes it easier to install and run OpenShift in that environment and to run Kubernetes-orchestrated containers on bare metal.

The new Cisco SD-WAN Security product combines Viptela’s technology with Meraki, Cisco’s cloud-managed IT service and wireless LAN product, plus Cisco security software.

Teridion says its technology optimizes the middle mile of connectivity between public cloud providers and ISPs, but where enterprises have no control. And Citrix brings SD-WAN to the first

The vendor recently announced plans to slash thousands of jobs as part of a major corporate restructuring.

Qualys buys Layered Insight for container-native security; Microsoft and Nasdaq partner on blockchain; Resin.io renames as balena, releases core platform.

With NetFoundry, EdgeConnex will provide enterprise customers with private and direct connections to public cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.

The Nexus 400 gigabit Ethernet switches target hyperscale cloud providers, large enterprise data centers, and telecommunications providers moving to 5G

The platform uses the MEF 63 Optical Transport Services specification focused on Layer 1 orchestration but is not intended as an end-to-end orchestrator.

This is the second vendor CenturyLink is using for its managed SD-WAN. The company launched its service in 2016 using Versa Networks' platform.

Kaloom says its software-defined fabric approach provides more flexibility than a more integrated model like DANOS.

The company said it’s using service providers as its SD-WAN sales channel and banking on large managed services deals.

Contrail’s enterprise multi-cloud platform is integrated with Nutanix APIs to give enterprises better visibility into virtualized workloads. It also paves the way for more automation.

The company says its approach is different from Cisco’s because it is focused on training the engineers behind the technology, not just releasing new products.

The Layer 2 service is provisioned over CenturyLink’s owned and operated global fiber as opposed to a leased backbone.

Like Cisco's intent-based networking its Business Critical Services use analytics and automation.

The turnkey model is designed to help service providers get into NFV without spending years to build their own telco clouds.

Innovium considers switch chip programmability to be relevant for niche applications and as an insurance policy for future needs.