Exfo is onboarding its service assurance VNFs into the Amdocs NFV software and services portfolio, which is powered by ONAP.

“If you’ve got mining happening on your network, you probably have other bad stuff happening on your network, and it’s probably much worse than mining,” said CTA’s Neil Jenkins.

Dell EMC brings hardware production in-house, dumps Celestica; Microsoft buys AI firm Lob; and Deutsche Telekom makes updates to Bavaria mobile network.

Under the partnership, Alibaba Cloud will offer VMware’s hybrid cloud software on its cloud infrastructure.

By removing Alphabet and Facebook from the technology index, investors will be more likely to pay attention to small tech companies like Cisco, Intel, and Oracle.

The hybrid cloud partnership will target original equipment manufacturers and channel partners that will build and sell private cloud products running Alibaba Cloud’s Apsara Stack.

The product uses a Kubernetes orchestration framework. It supports on-premises storage devices and cloud storage from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Digital Ocean, Wasabi, and Scality’s software-defined storage platform Ring.

SD-WAN 2.0 takes into account the new requirements of IT and new enterprise communication patterns to spread SD-WAN across multiple locations and clouds, says Nuage CEO Sunil Khandekar.

Intel may be best known for its x86 server chips, but its growing silicon portfolio targets cloud and edge applications, as well as 5G.

Instead of manufacturing chips, ARM provides its instruction set architecture to its customers — such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, NXP, and Marvell — and those companies manufacture the chips.

“I think we have an extremely strong hand when we look at competing against somebody like Arista in the campus and branch,” said Scott Harrell.

SDN and NFV are contributing to the growth of interconnection because these technologies make it easier for customers to consume more bandwidth.

The job cuts will impact employees of the former Motorola Solutions infrastructure business that Nokia purchased in 2011.

South Korean operator SK Telecom picked these three equipment vendors for its 5G deployment. The company plans to launch 5G in the first half of 2019.

Virtualization is the key to making new 5G use cases a reality, according to top tech chiefs at U.S. wireless operators.

The company claims its cloud storage costs less than one-fifth the price of Amazon S3 and is more than six times as fast.

Microsoft introduces Azure DevOps; OpenDaylight releases Fluorine ; and Sprint and Nokia collaborate on 5G.

The GSMA Mobile Economy report predicts that there will be 200 million 5G mobile connections in the U.S. and Canada by 2025, putting it ahead of Europe and key

The new Lenovo-branded products will combine NetApp’s all-flash data management and storage software with Lenovo’s servers.

The Open vRAN Alliance assembled products from different vendors to create an open vRAN system that can take the place of single-vendor RAN solution.

The IoT platform uses virtualization to push more processing capabilities to the edge of the network and a dedicated operating system to help the platform “come alive.”

The data center giant will pursue business opportunities in NFV, IoT, and 5G services, according to the new CEO.

VMware’s Rajiv Ramaswami says the virtualization company wants to bring more cloud-native services into customers’ on-premises data centers

Sprint CTO John Saw said the carrier’s rivals were “trying to make 5G lemonade out of the lemons that they have.” He was referring to Verizon and AT&T using