The company also updated its operating system to power what it calls security-driven networking, including new features for SD-WAN, edge, and multi-cloud environments.

The partners still “compete every day in the marketplace for hyperconverged deals — we haven’t been shy in having conversations about that,” said HPE’s Paul Miller.

Will open source usher in the second-wave of SD-WAN? flexiWAN's co-founder and CEO Amir Zmora thinks so.

The offering is based on TelcoSystems’ NFVTime product suite, which is a service-ready, plug-and-play uCPE that allows service providers to service chain multiple VNFs alongside the SD-WAN.

5G is not expected to positively impact operator revenues for at least three years, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.

CEO Nat Kausik said the new capital will be used to add more engineers and expand product distribution. He also sees an IPO in the future.

The company leveraged its purchase of Mist to extend cloud management to the full enterprise beyond the WAN and into the wired network, and beyond the branch into the

The reference designs offer a peek inside the brains of operators, Timon Sloane, VP of marketing and ecosystem at the Open Networking Foundation, told SDxCentral in an interview.

The Australian company claims to be the first SD-WAN provider in the country, first launching carrier and technology-agnostic SD-WAN services around 2013.

The operator contributed the initial seed code for the 5G RAN Intelligent Controller, which was co-developed with Nokia, to the Linux Foundation in partnership with the O-RAN Alliance as

This is the first PoC for the provider's newest portfolio addition, which provides SD-WAN and security on top of an OpenMSA framework.

The Spanish operator is also said to be finalizing a pact with rival Vodafone Spain to share parts of their 5G network infrastructure.

Lean NFV says "current NFV efforts are drowning in a quicksand of complexity," and proposes a decoupling of NFV’s core components.

The OpenDaylight project recently released its tenth iteration, adding support for optical transport networking, WAN connectivity and routing, and cloud and edge deployments.

The Open Platform for NFV now includes virtual network function compliance testing in conjunction with the Open Network Automation Platform community.

Both carriers are this week launching commercial 5G networks that work on 5G smartphones, but only one seems to have access to an actual 5G smartphone.

Dan Kohn, executive director of CNCF, said the group this year is targeting the broader telecom market.

By freeing up more spectrum during the next five years, the U.S. wireless industry could add $391 billion to the U.S. economy and create 1.8 million new jobs.

Aruba’s core focus is around networking, but the company also enhanced its security capabilities with artificial intelligence.

The acquisition enables the application delivery controller and load balance provider to continue to scale its platform and expand its addressable market.

VMware SD-WAN tops Cisco in new a IHS report; VMware-VeloCloud detail the road ahead for SD-WAN; and Citrix's internal network gets hacked.

The company issued patches for vulnerabilities found in vCloudDirector for service providers as well as VMware EXSi, Workstation, and Fusion.

Vendors use Germany’s Hannover Fair as a showcase for industrial 5G and IoT applications.

Within a span of 24 hours, Ericsson and Nokia both claimed to have 16 commercial 5G deals with publicly named service providers.