The competitive landscape for managed, on-premises Kubernetes services is becoming increasingly crowded with the likes of Cisco and even Google itself jumping in.

The two vendors are offering connectivity and SD-WAN over Ericsson’s private network. The offering looks similar to Aryaka’s.

Patel oversaw CenturyLink’s integration with Level 3 Communications and has experience with many large acquisitions.

Digital Realty already has data centers in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. This expands its data center footprint to Latin American — a region primed for growth.

Worldwide revenue for the telco VNF market in 2017 stood at only $2.5 billion.

Originally developed for the data center, silicon photonics can pump lots of data from the tower to the baseband unit or central office.

The company’s SD-WAN network now is available in 30 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Exfo is onboarding its service assurance VNFs into the Amdocs NFV software and services portfolio, which is powered by ONAP.

“If you’ve got mining happening on your network, you probably have other bad stuff happening on your network, and it’s probably much worse than mining,” said CTA’s Neil Jenkins.

The Sprint T-Mobile combo will have the capacity and coverage to offer fixed 5G wireless to homes in more than 50 percent of the U.S.

Dell EMC brings hardware production in-house, dumps Celestica; Microsoft buys AI firm Lob; and Deutsche Telekom makes updates to Bavaria mobile network.

Both companies were focused on infrastructure, and yet there was very little overlap in their product lines.

Under the partnership, Alibaba Cloud will offer VMware’s hybrid cloud software on its cloud infrastructure.

By removing Alphabet and Facebook from the technology index, investors will be more likely to pay attention to small tech companies like Cisco, Intel, and Oracle.

“To expect just one project to oversee all of the edge use cases is not practical,” said Aricent's Shamik Mishra.

Historically, SAP’s in-house team looked after its IT real estate, supported by a variety of different technology companies, including Verizon. But now, it’s sending more work Verizon’s way.

The hybrid cloud partnership will target original equipment manufacturers and channel partners that will build and sell private cloud products running Alibaba Cloud’s Apsara Stack.

The company is a heavyweight in the Ethernet switch space but has room to make up in 5G and IoT.

The chip maker is retooling its server business to focus on edge computing and is pushing hard on new growth areas like IoT and 5G.

Although Tier 1 operators are leading the way with NFV, the research firm says that it believes smaller operators will begin to see the benefits as well.

SD-WAN 2.0 takes into account the new requirements of IT and new enterprise communication patterns to spread SD-WAN across multiple locations and clouds, says Nuage CEO Sunil Khandekar.

McAfee says Presidents Trump and Obama have malware campaigns named after them. Tenable discloses a flaw that could affect hundreds of thousands of security cameras globally.

Intel may be best known for its x86 server chips, but its growing silicon portfolio targets cloud and edge applications, as well as 5G.

Instead of manufacturing chips, ARM provides its instruction set architecture to its customers — such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, NXP, and Marvell — and those companies manufacture the chips.