Nokia continues to stand out in supporting open RAN efforts by joining more collaborative bodies than its closest competitors Ericsson and Huawei.

ZTE claims it enabled China Mobile to achieve unified management of 150,000 packet-based transport network elements within China's Guangdong region.

An Omdia report commissioned by OCP found that equipment revenue among non-board member companies grew 40% in 2019, hitting $3.6 billion.

VMware bought security startup Octarine; Rakuten Mobile's ambitious 5G plan bled red; and Microsoft moved Project Cerberus to OCP.

Verizon's 5G mobile service is commercially available in 30 U.S. cities today and it plans to reach 60 cities before the end of the year.

Server shipments reached 3.3 million during the first quarter of 2020, driven by heightened demand from hyperscale and cloud providers in response to the pandemic.

AT&T selected Stankey as its new CEO; Google to slow hiring; Cisco vowed no job cuts; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

The move comes on the heels of AT&T’s most recent quarterly earnings release that was dominated by uncertainty tied to the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak.

Joining the alliance will speed Arm's mission to develop open, interoperable, and cloud-native infrastructure for 5G networks, said Arm's Panch Chandrasekaran.

That road uses a signaling interface to allow 4G LTE customers to continue data sessions between Rakuten and KDDI's networks.

The operator plans to build 5G mobile edge computing centers in 12 locations across South Korea to fuel its push into the enterprise market.

"The old way of growing the bandwidth of fiber is going to be increasingly difficult," said Dell’Oro analyst Jimmy Yu.

Open RAN is gaining momentum and it’s being driven further by collaboration between the Facebook-led TIP and the O-RAN Alliance.

The trial marks the successful use of a transceiver that's headline data rate can be achieved over a useful distance, said Infinera SVP Rob Shore.

Of the 18 positions announced, four will be filled by current executives at Sprint

A series of deals indicates that incumbent vendors like Nokia still have an important, and potentially unavoidable, role to play in modern network architecture.

The facility itself is not expected to be fully operational until later this year

The chips are designed to power networking equipment like switches, routers, secure gateways, firewalls, base stations, and smartNICs.

“They’re trying to hurt Huawei to hurt China, and they’re going so far that they're willing to risk hurting America more than they hurt Huawei," CSO Andy Purdy said.

The vendor's boldly named Project Maestro is now on the market under the more straight-laced VMware Telco Cloud Automation tag.

One of the near-term goals is to make cryptography more robust and ready for a post-quantum computing landscape, said NTT Research CEO Kazuhiro Gomi.

Nokia is striving to deliver a “truly cloud native” software stack that can run applications in containers with full lifecycle management and deliver microservices.

The event might not be happening, but that doesn't mean we are going to ignore the big trends we still expect to see in the coming weeks.

Huawei is charged with conspiring to steal intellectual property from six U.S. companies, violating a racketeering law, and helping Iran track protesters with surveillance equipment.