Riverbed CEO retires; Manoj Leelanivas returns to Juniper; and Microsoft reorganizes.

The organization has more than 60 ongoing initiatives tied to its 3.0 framework and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) efforts. These include a multi-vendor software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) implementation.

The company had been white labeling an SD-WAN service from another vendor, but it found it to be too expensive and not versatile enough.

The 2.0 version of its SDN Monitoring package integrates capabilities from SevOne’s data insights platform to automate operational insight of Cisco ACI environments, during and after its rollout.

Nokia wins a 50-percent share of the multi-vendor deal with China Mobile. The two companies are also working together on software-defined networking for China Mobile to expand its cloud

The trials will begin in New York City and Salt Lake City using mmWave spectrum, software-defined radios, edge cloud, and advanced optical networking.

The South Korean operator plans to talk about 5G trials at the 5G New Horizon Symposium in Austin, Texas, next month.

Juniper Networks will be one of the biggest consumers of Tungsten Fabric, but the name change helps distinguish it from Contrail.

Telefónica collaborates with Microsoft Azure on IoT; B.Yond joins the Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation; Openwave Mobility launched a 5G telco cloud database.

The SD-WAN API leverages and extends Cisco's SD-WAN and its network monitoring platform by isolating problems using underlay and overlay network data.

The security startup, founded by former Juniper, Fortinet, Barracuda, and Aerohive executives, exited stealth mode with its AI-based breach detection platform.

The FCC wants to ban any spending from the Universal Service Fund on networking equipment that could pose a security threat.

NEC/Netcracker will wrangle myriad vendors of hardware and software along with some open source code.

AT&T plans 60K white boxes; Dell EMC challenges Cisco in SD-WAN; Investors call a Dell-VMware merger a 'terrible deal.'

It’s notable because the Hyperledger code is running in a production environment with three competing institutions all running on the same blockchain network.

The company maintains close ties to AWS' Lambda serverless platform, but it is working more closely with Microsoft Azure.

Can the IoT market support both LPWA and cellular? Yes, says Sigfox, but forming partnerships with other IoT firms may be the best option.

ARM is also targeting the telco central office, working with such open source groups as the Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD).

New government restrictions over VPN usage may have an impact on SD-WAN providers that aren’t working with state-approved providers.

The platform is increasingly popping up in conversations tied to the orchestration and management of containers in a production environment.

A big driver for using next-generation technologies was improved capabilities to configure, troubleshoot, and measure data center networks.

Mosaic NetworX integrated Connected2Fiber’s connected world platform with its Salesforce instance to more effectively design and sell its SD-WAN service.

Juniper Networks security team wants to unify threat detection, automated enforcement, and mitigation in a unified platform and integrate with other technology vendors to support non-Juniper gear.

OpenShift, OpenStack, and Ansible were key drivers for 2018 results, with the impending acquisition of CoreOS set to bolster its container and Kubernetes position moving forward.