Vendors that want to sell to Telefónica’s Unica must get their VNFs certified and comply with OSM.

Plexxi simultaneously announced updates to its hyperconverged software stack, building on its intent-based networking capabilities.

Ankur Singla says that solving business problems has more value than simply selling a technology.

Oracle spreads AI across the cloud; Nokia makes successful 5G call in France; Cisco completes $270 million purchase of AI company.

Many Chinese service providers are reliant upon ZTE’s optical gear for their transport networks and backhaul. And switching to another vendor is not that easy.

The company rolled out its first PaaS and SaaS products at its .NEXT conference.

By making switching smarter, operators can lower latency and increase bandwidth.

The service provider is using a single platform from Nokia's Nuage to enable end-to-end automation between its WAN overlay service and its data center overlay service.

Union leaders lash out at CenturyLink's CEO Glen Post, but it's likely the layoffs come from former Level 3 executives who are taking over leadership of the company.

Google releases workflow creation beta; Deutsche Telekom puts 5G technology on German soil; HPE and Red Hat collaborate on containers.

The data center giant also added private, direct connections to Microsoft Azure cloud services in Miami and Paris.

HPE openly snubs Huawei over claim of partnership; Russians exploit Cisco routers for cyberattacks; and ZTE is banned from buying U.S. components.

Juniper has been quelling concerns about cloud providers' transition from MX to PTX routers. The company now says a lot of that transition is behind it, and the math

The ODTN project has some overlap with OpenConfig and TIP, but differs from the AT&T-led OpenROADM project.

The new NVMe-based storage array has built-in machine learning that uses predictive analytics and pattern recognition to improve storage performance.

The company is using SDN technology to combine service edge routers for Ethernet and IP-based services. Software control will come from a single common compute platform based on x86

Ericsson brings 5G to Italy; Cisco enhances its SAN offerings; NetFoundry and AWS team up on IoT.

The operator’s latest open source project named OnLife tackles multi-access edge computing and other 5G use cases, using CORD-like software.

Big Switch’s data center monitoring fabric will add support for public cloud environments including AWS and Azure later this year.

Automation and virtualization reduce costs and time to market for new services. And software allows companies to moving to an “everything-as-a-service” business model.

ADVA is not part of ONAP, but it wants to support carriers like Verizon that are committed to the platform.

Contrail Enterprise Multi-Cloud focuses on the data center as part of Juniper's overall strategy to help enterprises deal with multiple clouds.

The operator said it is on track to launch 5G in a handful of markets later this year but is still cagey about the details. Launch cities remain a

The service allows customers to provision dedicated HCI nodes without buying their own infrastructure.