The launch is the first for a standards-based 5G network in the U.S. and taps AT&T's deep SDN deployments.

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.

As operators roll out 5G, they need to get to grips with the thorny issue of which will be the best backhaul solution to support the higher data speeds

AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said the carrier is at 63 percent SDN control of its network operations that can be virtualized, pushing toward its goal of 65 percent control

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.

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

The company was pretty revolutionary with its idea to layer SDN on top of multiple third-party transport before all the SD-WAN vendors conceived of this.

The service provider is hoping to launch a cost-effective uCPE platform that supports more VNFs along with its SD-WAN early next year.

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

A regional U.S. carrier adds Parallel Wireless to its vendor portfolio to benefit from the flexibility of an open RAN approach for 4G and eventually 5G.

The new converged infrastructure combines IBM’s NVMe flash storage and software with Mellanox networking on Nvidia servers. It also uses Nvidia’s AI software stack.

The mobile operator association uses GDP and tax arguments to persuade governments to support the allocation of sufficient mmWave spectrum for 5G at WRC-19.

The big hyperscalers use field programmable gate array technology on standard servers in their data centers. But there’s a trend for other enterprises to emulate these hyperscalers.

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

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.

The collaboration focuses on the three biggest container pain areas for enterprises: 1) networking; 2) visibility; and 3) security.

Joe Cozzolino departs Cisco to join private equity firm; CenturyLink CTO joins the MEF board of directors.

The telecom giant is looking to cut $10 billion in costs from its operations as it positions itself to boost its focus on 5G.

“Most software that’s used for monitoring comes from software companies. We built this software out of operational need and we built it as users of the technology,” said Optanix

Things aren’t all bad news for Huawei. T-Mobile Poland confirmed that Huawei is the sole vendor supporting its 5G network.