Radcom restructures; Extreme Networks CFO steps down; TIP shakes up its leadership.

Verizon is touting the fact that it is the first operator globally to deploy 5G, even though the service is based upon the company’s own 5G TF standard.

The government agency gave time limits to cities to approve or reject requests from wireless operators to install small cell sites in neighborhoods.

Patel oversaw CenturyLink’s integration with Level 3 Communications and has experience with many large acquisitions.

Worldwide revenue for the telco VNF market in 2017 stood at only $2.5 billion.

The company’s SD-WAN network now is available in 30 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

By removing Alphabet and Facebook from the technology index, investors will be more likely to pay attention to small tech companies like Cisco, Intel, and Oracle.

SDN and NFV are contributing to the growth of interconnection because these technologies make it easier for customers to consume more bandwidth.

The job cuts will impact employees of the former Motorola Solutions infrastructure business that Nokia purchased in 2011.

“If you asked me five years ago if I would be talking about open source I would have said you were crazy,” said Amy Wheelus, VP of Network Cloud

For Airship, the most pressing issue is minimizing the impact on network operations during more frequent update cycles.

The company says it's in discussions with unnamed technology suppliers for equipment to deliver internet over power lines.

Cisco’s optical transport products overlap with Ericsson making Juniper the better partner.

For its inaugural telecom NFVI report, IDC says an example of orchestration would be ONAP.

The Apache 2.0-licensed project brings openness to access networks, so they can interoperate.

The capacity is correlated with consumption-based pricing, which service providers have been wanting for a long time.

Indianapolis will be the fourth 5G market for the operator, joining Sacramento, Los Angeles and Houston.

The Indian service provider delivers telecommunications services over a telecom network infrastructure reaching more than 1,550 municipalities in India.

The platform will be integrated into VMware's Telco NFV portfolio. This will add automated service assurance capabilities to support virtual network function deployments.

"SoftBank trusted us in 2016, and we’ve been working with them as partners ever since," says Frinx's CEO. "Folks say it is very important who your first customer is.”

Nutanix President Sudheesh Nair exits to become CEO of a startup; CenturyLink's VP of SDN leaves; Ariel Dan promoted to Cloudify CEO.

The Swedish firm reported an operating profit of $23 million. It’s the first time since the third quarter 2016 that the company has reported a profit.

The blockchain service is a part of Oracle's Cloud Platform and is built on The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger blockchain fabric.

Some companies and governments are now offering as much as $250,000 to find and fix security flaws, according to the Hacker-Powered Security Report.