Huawei enhances its storage platform; Orange and Siemens partner on industrial IoT; Equinix completes $804 million acquisition of Metronode.

Cisco expects the ratio of IT people to devices to increase from 1 to 1,000 to 1 to 100,000 in just a couple of years.

Intel debuts cloud-ready mainframes; Telefónica completes 5G automated car demo; Sprint and T-Mobile renew merger talks.

The company also launched an integrated data center security architecture that includes four Cisco products.

Riverbed CEO retires; Manoj Leelanivas returns to Juniper; and Microsoft reorganizes.

The organization has more than 60 ongoing initiatives tied to its 3.0 framework and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) efforts. These include a multi-vendor software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) implementation.

The 2.0 version of its SDN Monitoring package integrates capabilities from SevOne’s data insights platform to automate operational insight of Cisco ACI environments, during and after its rollout.

Nokia wins a 50-percent share of the multi-vendor deal with China Mobile. The two companies are also working together on software-defined networking for China Mobile to expand its cloud

The trials will begin in New York City and Salt Lake City using mmWave spectrum, software-defined radios, edge cloud, and advanced optical networking.

Juniper Networks will be one of the biggest consumers of Tungsten Fabric, but the name change helps distinguish it from Contrail.

Telefónica collaborates with Microsoft Azure on IoT; B.Yond joins the Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation; Openwave Mobility launched a 5G telco cloud database.

The SD-WAN API leverages and extends Cisco's SD-WAN and its network monitoring platform by isolating problems using underlay and overlay network data.

NEC/Netcracker will wrangle myriad vendors of hardware and software along with some open source code.

AT&T plans 60K white boxes; Dell EMC challenges Cisco in SD-WAN; Investors call a Dell-VMware merger a 'terrible deal.'

ARM is also targeting the telco central office, working with such open source groups as the Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD).

A big driver for using next-generation technologies was improved capabilities to configure, troubleshoot, and measure data center networks.

Lumina can operate a single control plane that software defines the existing routed network and integrates white box switches.

The platform integrates with public and private cloud providers, and allows DevOps teams to deploy applications in minutes.

TM Forum and the Linux Foundation team up for APIs; Ericsson and Ambra Solutions build underground LTE network; Dell Technologies takes a step further to connected vehicles.

The disaggregation of the control plane and data plane with open interfaces feels a bit like the free-wheeling days of the early internet.

Metaswitch’s routing and control plane protocols run as applications on top of AT&T’s disaggregated network operating system. That dNOS platform this week moved to the open source community as

The disaggregation push of its service provider OS includes support for routers using off-the-shelf silicon, but device support is limited to “a curated set of third-party devices.”

Nuage’s SDN deployment spans more than 10 data centers, the largest containing more than 1,000 servers.

The Indian mobile operator is building a software-defined network (SDN) from scratch using Cisco, Samsung, and other vendors, along with cherry-picked open source code.