The United Kingdom-based operator plans to leverage the Dell EMC's Virtual Edge Platform series of appliances for a new managed service offering.

Ericsson is also adding containers on a bare metal cloud infrastructure, which it claims can save operators up to 30% on operational costs compared to virtual machines.

The interconnection giant this week reported its 68th consecutive quarter of growth and said it ended fiscal year 2019 with $5.56 billion in revenue.

Millicom is taking the Affirmed vEPC platform to deploy virtualized services running on top of VMware’s vCloud NFV platform to support mobile and WiFi services in Latin America.

Double-digit declines in service provider sales continue to plague Cisco earnings. The vendor reported an 11% drop in service provider revenue in the second quarter of its fiscal 2020.

Mavenir won 5G deals in Japan and Germany; the SASE space race is heating up; and Fortinet and Adtran teamed up to woo SD-WAN providers.

The Linux Foundation's Heather Kirksey likened OPNFV's current status to the Gartner Hype Cycle and looking to come out of the “through of disillusionment.”

The event was set to get underway on Feb. 24, but a wave of cancellations by network operators and vendors became too much for the event organizers to overcome.

By leveraging Intel's x86 architecture, Adtran claims that it is now possible to quickly roll out new features, including those from third-party vendors, to existing equipment.

“We believe there is a space race right now for SASE,” CEO Amit Bareket said. “Perimeter 81 is positioned very strongly to win it.”

Mavenir’s fully virtualized 4G and 5G open RAN offering became commercially available to operators in October 2019.

Judge gave T-Mobile a thumbs up on Sprint merger: IBM found billions of cloud misconfigs; and Verizon 5G footprint crossed the pond.

The firewall and SD-WAN vendor claims by adding support for Amdoc's orchestration layer, it can eliminate operational hurdles for service providers and reach new customers.

The colocation giant already partnered with Oracle and offered direct, private connections to Oracle’s public cloud via Equinix’s SDN-based platform.

The operators’ quest to merge, which began almost 22 months ago, has been held up by a group of state attorneys general that filed a lawsuit in a bid

The accentuates the stock that operators are putting in new use cases and applications that can theoretically only be delivered by 5G.

MWC Barcelona hit by Coronavirus cancellations; Netskope scored $340M and got SASE; and Snowflake investors dumped $479M in new funding round.

While AI has traditionally taken place in the cloud, Arm is confident the next phase will see AI move to the edge of the network and into endpoints.

Arista networks buys Big Switch; VMware acquires AIOps vendor Nyansa to bolster SD-WAN; plus the latest VC/M&A news from January.

The security company scored a new $340 million investment, which puts Netskope at a $3 billion valuation.

McAfee hires new CEO, mulls sale or IPO; VMware ‘rebalances’ jobs following 12-month buying spree; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

The trio of carriers ended 2019 with almost 4.7 million 5G subscribers and shared some details about new services coming to the fore.

T-Mobile dissed "capacity hog" DSS; Fortinet scored big with Equinix SD-WAN deal; and Huawei cops to backdoor chip access.

The carrier worked with Vodafone, Verizon, and Orange on making the CNTT process work across each operator’s vendor ecosystem.