Three companies opened the OCP Experience Center for testing new and proposed OCP technologies and for conducting demonstrations of open OCP hardware designs.

The new facility plays into the data center provider’s plan to pull hyperscale cloud deals away from competitors including Equinix.

eBay ditches OpenStack in favor of Kubernetes and Docker; AT&T awards 5G contracts; Arista makes second acquisition.

The etcdadm tool automates the configuration, deployment, and management of etcd clusters used by Kubernetes to store control plane information.

GTT is also working with another recent acquisition, Interoute, to move its SD-WAN to a universal CPE approach with an integrated firewall.

The former Sprint executive says that there are too many SD-WAN competitors in the market muddying the message to enterprises.

Radisys says operators want a platform that supports specific applications. They don't want uncertainty about which platform to use.

The Chinese server vendor Inspur participates in all of the open hardware platforms, including OCP, the Open Data Center Community, and Open19.

This white box reference design is available to any hardware maker to use as a guide to build cell site gateway routers. And they can be paired with disaggregated

Verizon is touting the fact that it is the first operator globally to deploy 5G, even though the service is based upon the company’s own 5G TF standard.

Both are “service experiments” in that the military wants to trial private companies — as opposed to Air Force service members — to provide IT and networking services.

Good integrated CI/CD and an orchestrator like Kubernetes could negate the need for MANO.

Vasona Networks gets purchased by ZephyrTel; Kubernetes releases its newest version; and news out of Microsoft Ignite.

Sprint's Aaron Hinkle also weighed in on SDN: “When you move to the edge you have to be able to do a full SDN deployment.”

Paired with the P4 programming language, Barefoot’s Tofino chip gives users the freedom to design what the chip can do.

AWS and Google are notably absent from the group, though Microsoft and IBM are on board.

Ericsson and Telstra extended the 3GPP standards-based limit for a long-range narrowband IoT data connections from 40 km to 100 km through software upgrades.

The government agency gave time limits to cities to approve or reject requests from wireless operators to install small cell sites in neighborhoods.

Previously, SteelFusion has been available out-of-box for VMware environments only. But now, Riverbed is providing SteelFusion for native Microsoft Windows Server environments for Hyper-V.

RingCentral deployed ThousandEyes monitoring platform last quarter to add an additional layer of visibility over its global network and services.

“The path forward is an open platform,” said Adva’s Prayson Pate, adding that an open platform will meet the full-potential of an agile and flexible SD-WAN.

Vodafone said Juniper’s Contrail Service Orchestrator is a key part of the platform because it provides customers with a self-service portal.

“We had inflated expectations” because the promise was vendors could easily obtain commodity hardware and “throw some VNFs on it and it would make money," said a Masergy executive.

The CCVPN use case allows for the orchestration of an operator’s underlying optical transport network and overlay SD-WAN in a way to support the peering of inter-operator VPN service