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Ericsson and Singtel set to launch Singapore 5G pilot this year; Dell EMC Unity gets an update; Teneo uses Riverbed tech for monitoring.

Software revenue wasn’t enough to push the company back to year-over-year growth. It reported net revenue of $1.2 billion for the second quarter, an 8-percent drop compared to last

The xRAN Forum is in the process of becoming part of the O-RAN Alliance. The merger was announced last February but is taking a long time to be formalized.

Most of that 5-year growth will come from an increased use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to support the extension of higher network speeds closer to end users.

Tazari looks to build on Packet's bare metal cloud model, launching a working edge platform by 2019, and improving on its hardware and software offerings.

Company CEO Rajeev Suri brushed aside market share concerns at the telecom giant but did admit to losing contracts in a “small number” of Verizon markets.

Windstream launches SD-WAN Cloud Connect, a virtual edge device that enables enterprises to connect their network locations with their cloud-based applications.

Adding Feger is the latest in a number of hires by F5 as it shifts its business model to prepare for 5G, IoT, and the cloud.

Verizon will have four 5G markets launched in 2018. AT&T says it will have a dozen.

The SNAPS-Kubernetes platform helps to deliver virtual network functions that use fewer resources, are more fault-tolerant, and can scale quickly to meet demand.

Gigamon will combine its network traffic visibility capabilities with Icebrg’s security platform and allow SOC teams to deploy new security technologies as “security applications” on top of it.

Both vendors were recently labeled as "challengers" by IHS Markit in the optical networking space behind heavyweights Cisco, Ciena, Huawei, and Nokia.

The end user monitoring company added new cloud nodes on AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, Tencent, and Alibaba regions, and extended its monitoring capabilities outside of its existing support.

IHS said that the top optical equipment vendors posted more than $1 billion in revenues last year. Worldwide, Huawei remains the market heavyweight.

For its first code release the OpenSDS project unified storage with Kubernetes for container control and storage with OpenStack for virtual machine control.

Swim secures $10 million; the three major South Korean mobile operators will work together on 5G; GE and Microsoft partner on industrial IoT.

The operator’s new partner program will bring together hardware and software developers.

Engineers from Savvius, which LiveAction acquired last month, helped specify the hardware and optimize and test the server image for bare metal installation.

AT&T’s other virtualization platform, FlexWare, now includes SD-WAN from VMware/VeloCloud.

The Swedish firm reported an operating profit of $23 million. It’s the first time since the third quarter 2016 that the company has reported a profit.

With Nokia Nuage SD-WAN, Globe Telecom customers across the 7,000 islands that comprise the Philippines will have automated, cloud-based connectivity.

It’s delivering a public-cloud management paradigm, which customers are familiar with, to on-premises workloads.

CEO Devesh Garg says the company’s operating system isn’t limited by legacy software or hardware and can take advantage of innovations in the underlying silicon.