“We’re ready to roll but I think we need to wait for the right moment,” Telefónica CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete said about 5G.

Now that T-Mobile US has laid a widespread 5G footprint, much of its future plans hang on the outcome of its proposed merger with Sprint.

The company today said it hired Raj Yavatkar as the new CTO. Like Koley, Yavatkar previously headed cloud networking at Google.

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Industry observers agree that the outlook for IoT is up, but the trajectory of that growth and where it will be most impactful in the near term are largely

SD-WAN has reached an inflection point as enterprises — driven by cost savings, equipment replacements, and increased reliance on the cloud — have adopted the technology.

CXL has big beneficial implications for a wide range of industries, including high-performance computing and hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft

The technology is still, at least partially, theoretical because it remains under development and hasn’t been commercially deployed at large.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said he expects Carbon Black combined with VMware’s “security-driven value-add” networking and cloud products to be a $1 billion business this year.

“It has been a bit of a challenge to get that community excited about telecom and to get excited about working with us to advance networking," said LFN's Heather

The company picked Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs to help offload non-strategic infrastructure acquired from Interoute and Hibernia.

Bloomberg reported earlier today that Dell Technologies is considering selling RSA Security for at least $1 billion.

Current COO Joerg Erlemeier will leave the company after a 25-year run on Jan. 1. His functions will be distributed to other leaders within the company.

The network edge compute service ties together Microsoft’s Azure cloud and AT&T’s network edge locations.

SD-WAN market reports consistently show Cisco and VMware jockeying for the No. 1 spot. But to date VMware hasn’t disclosed its SD-WAN customer count.

“5G is an important element but it’s not the Holy Grail of IoT," said AWS IoT VP Dirk Didascalou.

In a separate report, Ericsson says the global number of 5G subscriptions will top 2.6 billion by the mid-2020.

A recent Dell’Oro Group report forecast that the adoption of 400GbE connections is not likely to gain traction until at least next year.

The agency has also established a process to designate additional companies.

Edge computing is a dispersion or distribution of the cloud and latency is the driving force of this evolution, said MEF CTO Pascal Menezes.

Nokia outlined five key business objectives for 5G that can only be delivered by a cloud-native environment.

Almost four months after announcing that its founding CEO was on his way out, A10 Networks selected Dhrupad Trivedi to lead the company.

Western Digital and Liqid demonstrated the ability to orchestrate NVMe over Fabrics across low-latency Ethernet fabrics.

“Everybody does automation,” Extreme’s Dan DeBacker said. “But we believe we’re the only ones that have it embedded in the switch.”