“We need to figure out how [edge] impacts how we execute our business,” Charles Meyers said.

The update includes new branch hardware with built-in cellular capabilities, improved security features, and an SD-WAN orchestrator.

AT&T’s ongoing network virtualization effort, specifically the amount of core network functions it has moved to SDN, has been tangled in ambiguity.

The proof-of-concept aims to test multi-access edge computing for the global distribution of services using a "markerless" augmented reality application.

The Falco project joins 14 other Incubating projects as the first and, so far, only security runtime platform within CNCF.

Anana wanted to automated infrastructure to unify its two data centers and provide more agile service delivery for its customers.

The Open Mobile Evolved Core (OMEC) platform supports connections into the carrier’s existing base stations, mobility management services, and lawful intercept platforms.

"Using the software layer to address not just the security but also the cost element, the cost problem for 5G networks, I think is a win for everybody," FCC

The platform is designed to run on any x86-based white box. However, the company has partnered with several hardware vendors in large communications projects.

“These technologies are not standalone technologies, they’re actually reinforcing,” Intel CEO Bob Swan said.

Adaptiv plans to roll LiveQoS's software portfolio into its SD-WAN offering in a move to accelerate latency and bandwidth sensitive applications.

“Beginning in the next 24 hours you will see cyberattacks manifesting as a harbinger for kinetics attacks,” said VMware Carbon Black’s Tom Kellermann.

Company President Cristiano Amon said the product will be “deployed commercially at scale in the second half of this year."

The certification, developed by the quasi-standards body MEF, aims to help service providers compare and choose an SD-WAN vendor.

The deal marks the year’s first cybersecurity acquisition and the largest-ever enterprise IoT security software acquisition.

NeoPhotonics claims its 400-GB/s capable transceivers are the first to deliver 32 terabits of capacity per fiber and target cloud providers and carriers.

The latest vulnerabilities are in the authentication mechanism and could allow an attacker to execute actions or privileges on a device.

The partnership makes Cumulus Linux operating system and NetQ performance monitoring available on HPE’s ethernet switches.

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Inspur's Nvidia EGX-based NE5260M5 edge server is already being deployed by the China Mobile Research Institute in a large-scale edge computing pilot.

“We aim to control 75% of our core network functions with software by the end of 2020 and, by reaching 65% at the end of 2019, we’re nearly there,”

“Security is one of the biggest factors limiting IoT expansion,” said Bill Curtis, resident analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.

Europe’s fifth-most populated country is the last in that region to launch 5G-specific spectrum auctions.

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