“It’ll be a fascinating test. It’s something we can’t control. I certainly have aspirations, but it’s going to be up to us to execute," said VMware's Craig McLuckie.

The changes will "strongly position the company against our competitors," according to an internal email sent to employees by Cisco’s David Goeckeler.

The new Zero Trust Architecture blocks connectivity to servers and applications from unknown devices.

The network equipment vendor and operator deployed the MEC capabilities and network slicing in the Guangdong province, which has a population of almost 115 million people.

This includes a new External Key Manager, which allows companies to store and manage encryption keys outside of Google Cloud

“SD-WAN is the gateway for security,” MEF CTO Pascal Menezes said during his keynote at MEF 2019.

In addition to expanding its service provider reach, Fortinet announced an alliance with Siemens to secure OT networks.

Aryaka's restructured SmartServices product line breaks out many features previously only available as part of the its SmartConnect SD-WAN platform.

The partners are pitching enterprise-grade managed internet, multi-cloud connectivity, and SD-WAN visibility services to businesses and carriers.

MEF’s community has grown about 70% to more than 200 organizations during the last 18 months, and it expects to double that number by the end of 2020.

The platform includes the edge node latency performance required to fully virtualize 5G vRAN functions including industrial IoT and mobile-edge computing.

IBM unveiled new open source projects Kui and Iter8 along with advancements to existing Tekton and Razee.

The edge computing partnership allows local enterprises — specifically the automotive sector and suppliers — to connect to Sprint’s IoT platform.

This marks the end of John Legere’s run at the company, which began in September 2012

Cumulus Linux 4.0 widens its hardware support to 134 platforms across 14 ASICs.

The engineering collaboration focuses on 5G platforms like mobile core, network and service orchestrion, device management, and operational support systems.

Fulfilling Gartner's predictions, Palo Alto Networks announced its transition to a secure access service edge platform.

Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung have much to lose if the RAN space flattens to a point where their equipment becomes a commodity.

The variance in performance hasn't shaken Amazon's grip on the market. AWS remains the largest cloud provider by market share.

The increased interoperability testing will include Nokia’s virtual network functions and containerized network functions running on VMware’s Telco Cloud platform.

A 5G SA core will allow operators to offer 5G-specific services, including network slicing, mobile edge computing, AI-driven analytics, and ultra-low latency networks.

“The real speed boost typically comes with technologies like millimeter-wave [spectrum]," says AT&T’s Igal Elbaz.

Intel estimates that the AI community’s demand for compute will increase 64 times during the next two years.

The servers are the result of a collaboration that began in March 2017 between Marvell, Microsoft, and Foxconn subsidiary Ingrasys.