The partners will jointly develop an edge-to-core vRAN product based on Samsung’s radio network technologies and system integration services and HPE’s new Edgeline server.

The company's software is designed to support SDN in core, aggregation, and provider edge networks, and complement SDN in other parts of a network.

Verizon adds a secure connection to Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure debuts new data services; 6Wind and Advantech work together on white boxes.

Chuck Robbins said he didn’t want to imply that a deal with AWS was in the works. But he added that AWS Outposts with Cisco networking was “certainly conceivable.”

The support will allow organizations to deploy Knative in a Kubernetes cluster using a one-click install via the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service user interface.

The new working group will focus on the implementation and deployment of systems that leverage multi-access edge computing standardized APIs.

It’s based on a set of APIs providing pre-built use cases, quick-start guides, and integrations with popular tooling.

The acquisition comes as other data backup companies including Rubrik and Cohesity are also moving into security.

The COMAC initiative is focused on delivering services over both mobile and broadband networks while supporting subscriber management and maintaining a consistent service experience without regard to the access

The 5G PCF platform acts as the policy management function of the 5G control plane. It’s also one of the 5G core network elements providing quality of service and

This extends a 7-year partnership between the Oman-based service provider and Fortinet.

The new group advances Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge architecture, which uses software-defined interconnection and high-speed networking to combine multiple micro-data centers into a single, virtual facility.

The acquisition advances Symantec’s strategy of buying born-in-the-cloud security startups and folding their technologies into its platform to unify cloud and on-premises security.

The company’s customers include Nutanix, Raytheon, and Tavant. It has raised almost $30 million to date.

The vendor’s TruScale Infrastructure Services lets companies rent its data center severs and software stacks and only pay for what they use.

Ahead of MWC, Nokia launched four vertically-focused IoT packages to serve the agriculture, livestock management, logistics, and asset management markets.

The new products include a pair of routers that expand Juniper’s Metro Fabric line and a new edge line card offering a three-fold increase in card and system capacity

The Paris-France based startup offers a software platform that tests the behavior of a company’s user-facing web applications.

The two vendors are jointly developing a hardware management platform for service providers that combines Ericsson SDI Manager software and Intel Rack Scale Design architecture and software.

Orange claims the largest enterprise SD-WAN deployment in the world rolling out more than 1,500 sites with its Flexible SD-WAN service.

IHS Markit says hyperconverged infrastructure will grow from only 122,000 units shipped last year to more than 1 million units shipped by 2022.

The investment is further validation that microsegmentation is real, and Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin admits that VMware deserves “quite a bit of credit” for legitimizing this technology.

Vodafone Germany swaps out Huawei for Nokia in its core network; Sprint sues AT&T for 'fake 5G' tech; and Cisco completes its acquisition of Luxtera.

The trial is part of Cisco’s 5G RuralFirst initiative to contribute to the business case for improving connectivity beyond cities.