The news comes as other manufactures including TSMC race to bring their next-gen silicon to market — and challenge Intel’s long-standing chip dominance in the data center.

Google Cloud acquires DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA); Telecom Italia (TIM), Qualcomm, and Ericsson successfully complete a live video call using 5G mmWave spectrum; AT&T offers new security service.

The technology is still in its infancy with only a handful of vendors shipping products. We expect to see more action in 2019.

The Kubernetes project made a lot of progress in 2018 in terms of maturity, stability, and scalability, which helped drive M&A activity and a greater focus on security.

It concludes that IT teams are looking to new technologies like artificial intelligence to meet their data center demands.

Oracle had previously tried to create its own SD-WAN technology, but it couldn’t get it to market fast enough for its customers.

The report cited a divergent business path compared with Nokia and hinted at a potential upside for Ericsson due to continued geo-political issues for Huawei and ZTE.

IoT devices have two types of update mechanisms: an API call or user-initiated update. Phosphorus covers all that with its update-all button for IoT.

InterDigital competes with Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, and Samsung. These vendors also do technology innovation in conjunction with emerging standards. But their standards work is “subsumed” within other business

The Chinese vendor beat out Cisco, Microsoft, and PTC for the top spot in the analyst firm's IoT Platform Vendor Scorecard.

The German carrier along with Nokia is now in a position to test use cases for industry and enhanced massive broadband.

The networking-focused hardware is built for the Open19 Foundation infrastructure platform.

Luxtera’s technology integrates high performance optics directly with silicon electronics, bringing what it calls “fiber to the chip” connectivity to speed the transfer of data between servers.

The standards body insists there is no need for panic, as it announces a three-month delay in the completion of the Release 15 standard.

The South Korean carrier is to partner with MobiledgeX, building on the deal signed with DT in October 2018.

Amazon Web Services opens in Sweden; Apple expands across the US; and the Hyperledger project expands its membership.

AWS argues that it has a “direct and substantial economic interests at stake.” It says Oracle’s conflict-of-interest accusations are “meritless.”

“SDN is going to be a very broad deployment,” said Telus’ Bryce Mitchell. “We made sure we included SDN within the NFV pods themselves.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) once again came in No. 2, with 16.3 percent revenue share or $3.81 billion.

That amount was a substantial premium over what Heptio had raised from investors and other similar deals in the Kubernetes space.

Verizon and Jio were both original members of the xRAN Forum, which merged with the C-RAN Alliance this year to form O-RAN.

In order for Kubernetes to infiltrate more than 100,000 organizations, the ecosystem needs to tackle business cases, management, and training.

Data center interconnect equipment revenue will increase 85 percent over the next five years, from $2.7 billion in 2017 to $5.1 billion in 2022, according to Dell’Oro Group.

Amid all the political noise, Huawei ploughs on regardless with a further advance in 5G network slicing and a new 5G network deal with Altice Portugal.