Step up or get out of the way, say the operator board members of ONF, including AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, Deutsche Telekom, NTT Group, Telefonica, and Turk Telekom.

The white box routers are part of a “radical realignment” of AT&T's network architecture and means the carrier will no longer rely on proprietary silicon and feature roadmaps from

Visio Health used Cradlepoint to create plop-and-go connectivity at healthcare sites using its diagnostic telemedicine carts. Cradlepoint NetCloud offers IoT network and device management, optimized WAN path selection, and

The collaboration will look to integrate Virtual Optical Line Termination Hardware Abstraction software with the Open Networking Automation Platform. The work builds on AT&T's work with passive optical networking

ETSI NFV and OPNFV co-locate their testing events; Telefónica and Huawei partner on big data; Canada jumps toward 5G standardization.

The latest update is extensive and comes as the project is under the shadow of an impending merger with five other hosted networking projects within the Linux Foundation.

Facebook’s FBOSS and Google’s Stratum use Open Network Linux hardware. ONL is a Linux distribution for bare metal switches and it is one of OCP’s several open hardware projects.

The focus is to reduce fronthaul and backhaul costs by using Ethernet-based networking and virtual networking in the fronthaul, the BBUs, and the remote radio heads.

P4 takes SDN to the next level, bringing programmability to the forwarding plane.

Riverbed rebrands itself and launches new platform; GTT expands into Canada; resin.io adds multicontainer support.

It sits above domain controllers from packet and transport vendors.

The companies claim the PoC was the first to show two-way control.

It harks back to the age-old preference for one controller over another.

AOS is the first automation software in the Yahoo Japan data center that it didn’t build itself.

Palo Alto loses exec to Apstra; CenturyLink speeds up retirement of CEO; Nokia names new president of global services.

The next step is to integrate with SDN controller as part of ECOMP.

Google pines for a truly programmable data plane.

Telefónica and China Unicom enter IoT agreement; The Pentagon slashes deal with AWS partner; Dropbox leverages Equinix.

Two new products provide assurance in the WAN.

Cisco-Viptela breathes life into Orange's SD-WAN; the SD-WAN hype cycle starts its decline; AT&T SD-WAN hits 150 countries.

Resource savings with containers is pegged at around 40 percent.

Cisco forms IoT, 5G, and smart city partnerships; Softbank and Affirmed Networks strike an IoT agreement; VMware launches edge technology.

It all started with C3PO and separating the control and user plane.

Containers are also part of the equation in support of microservices and use cases.