Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom are testing federated network slicing.

Network slicing and mobile edge computing are in the works, too.

4.9G math: Licensed + unlicensed = 1 Gb/s

MegaPath picks VeloCloud for SD-WAN; Arista VP of worldwide sales leaves to join Rubrik.

Both companies are based in Finland.

It also interoperates with 15 different VNFs.

Cisco, Juniper & machine learning figured in our Top 10 January stories.

Netscout joins OPNFV; Cato launches a cloud-based SD-WAN service.

Fulfilling its promise to work with a variety of virtualization vendors.

Ixia fills a portfolio gap for Keysight.

Huawei and Red Hat expand cooperation on NFV and cloud; Ciena's SVP and COO steps down.

The private cloud titan is a convert to hybrid cloud.

The ETSI group is hosting its first Plugtest this week in Spain.

Customers of Blue Planet Analytics don't need to be Ciena customers.

He'll harmonize all the different Linux Foundation open source groups for networking.

IoT has the potential to make 'serverless' even bigger.

Cisco announces a new data and analytics training program; U.S. Army signs a five-year contract with IBM to build a cloud system.

Open Baton may eventually contribute to other open source MANO groups.

Ericsson does CloudRAN R&D with China Mobile; Korean operator rolls out Juniper routers in advance of 5G.

The Linux Foundation's new moniker for the project is OpenECOMP.

Vendors jump on MEC, and ETSI creates a working group.

MEF is working on APIs for both north/south and east/west.

95 percent of operators surveyed will create mini data centers.

T-Mobile accelerates IoT; Viptela partners with Inbox Business to deploy SD-WAN in Pakistan.