Almost every network operator agrees on the edge’s importance, but how each gets there and the form those frameworks take is a central point of confusion.

The combination will lower costs and improve communications performance across NEC's communications offerings.

SD-WAN is the most disruptive network technology of 2019, but it has yet to supplant MPLS for most large enterprises, according to a recent Avant report.

A tier-one operator deployed Trellis, an open source SDN-based platform, said AT&T’s Andre Fuetsch during an ONF Connect keynote. He didn’t name the operator.

The carrier's network virtualization journey reached a landmark this week with 75% of data running through MPLS tunnels now under SDN control.

The partnership will allow customers to deploy security anywhere its needed across the WAN.

The service mesh is based on the Envoy service proxy and supports microservices running in Kubernetes, VMs, containers, and legacy environments.

The company said AIOps has the potential to significantly reduce downtime, enable faster fault recovery, and reduce the time to resolution for troubleshooting.

Verizon unveiled major enhancements to its Virtual Communications Express cloud calling service alongside a new partnership with Cisco.

The country's second- and third-largest operators are pooling their resources to jointly build and manage a 5G network.

Stratum is a silicon-independent switch operating system for SDN that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms.

The cloud giant announced partnerships with SES, Viasat, and Intelsat to bring Azure to remote customers.

Mobile operators have “massive strengths” that remain untapped, Synchronoss CEO Glenn Lurie said at Mobile Future Forward.

The companies are collaborating to support operators as they combine VNFs, SDN, and 5G in ONAP.

Here are some of the most prominent venture capital and merger and acquisition news items from August.

The next phase of composable infrastructure involves 5G networks as a fabric type.

Verizon says 13 NFL stadiums will have 5G service when teams square off for week-one action.

The deal calls for the delivery of advanced SDN and some network application management.

The optical networking heavyweight posted strong Q3 results that beat expectations.

The U.S. ban on trade with Chinese networking giant Huawei contributed to a softening switch market in China.

Its namesake cloud data integration platform aims to address ingestion variables.

The addition means users can now connect their on-premises networks directly to their Amazon VPCs.

Executives from both carriers highlighted the combined strengths of their networks at the Mobile Future Forward conference.

EdgeConneX teamed up with Lume in a move that gives the data center company’s customers access to edge-based hybrid cloud services.