ZTE might look to judicial remedies after the U.S. ban; Huawei lays off its Washington, D.C. liason; and Twitter bans ads from Kaspersky Labs.

The FCC wants to ban any spending from the Universal Service Fund on networking equipment that could pose a security threat.

New government restrictions over VPN usage may have an impact on SD-WAN providers that aren’t working with state-approved providers.

NetElastic’s software is tailored to telecom operators, not enterprises, and can scale quickly to handle networks with terabits of traffic.

The SD-WAN network will connect more than 20 Hall and Prior nursing home locations in Western Australia and New South Wales.

Step up or get out of the way, say the operator board members of ONF, including AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, Deutsche Telekom, NTT Group, Telefonica, and Turk Telekom.

The vendor says current IT-based container platforms are not robust enough. Knitter includes multiple network planes, static application IP address migration, and configurable IP resources.

The focus is to reduce fronthaul and backhaul costs by using Ethernet-based networking and virtual networking in the fronthaul, the BBUs, and the remote radio heads.

It harks back to the age-old preference for one controller over another.

The next step is to integrate with SDN controller as part of ECOMP.

Broadcom offers to sweeten the pot with $1.5B for engineer training.

The new programmable chipset nears Shannon's limit in terms of performance.

ZTE has its own customized NFVi layer built on OpenStack.

Resource savings with containers is pegged at around 40 percent.

The company is working with service providers to embed security in their products.

The new technology removes bandwidth limitations for processing large volumes of data.

Intel will partner with NTT DoCoMo on 5G at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Suri also hinted about a soon-to-be-announced 5G deal with a U.S. operator.

The group is working to establish a cross-carrier blockchain platform.

ETSI NFV endeavors to make VNFs as open as possible.

The rise of 5G and IoT devices means the threat landscape is larger than ever.

Both firms say they are trusted partners of U.S. suppliers and customers.

It overlaps with part of the work that OPNFV does.

The tests are a necessary step toward wide-scale 5G deployment.