The partnership dramatically expands the reach of VMware's SD-WAN and secure access service edge offering.

Cisco tackled rural broadband; SK Telecom tapped Samsung, Intel, and HPE to speed NFV for 5G; and T-Mobile belittles U.S. 5G.

The companies will develop NFV technologies for 5G network infrastructure and establish a standardized process for NFV adoption.

Verizon boosted 5G security; VMware, NSF offered up a $6M sustainable IT prize; and Huawei’s global footprint shrank.

The partnership will see Ekinops deploy its OneOS operating system on Lanner's Atom-based universal CPE appliances.

Cisco smashed SD-WAN, Kubernetes into CN-WAN; T-Mobile detailed its $40B upgrade plans; and Google's Istio move ignited an open source tempest.

The managed service provider aims to fortify customer's WAN from increasingly sophisticated security threats.

Arm-based uCPE lowers costs, improves energy efficiency, and accelerates networking performance, said Arm's Eddie Ramirez.

Check Point's security suite fills many of the holes in Aryaka's SASE stack.

SD-WAN built on the assumption that networks are inherently insecure and unreliable is at best "problematic" and at worst "unsustainable," Ekinops' Marc Bouteyre argues.

Cisco rolled out its SASE ambitions; Verizon teased its forthcoming DSS launch for nationwide 5G; and cryptominers attacked Azure.

Verizon tapped Cisco for a NFV services push; HPE's Neri contracted COVID-19; and Cisco updated its IBN portfolio for full stack automation.

The partnership enables Verizon to address Cisco-specific customer needs and provide an ecosystem on which to manage multiple VNFs.

Early adopting service providers include AT&T, Bestel, Bloomberg, Colt Technology Services, HGC Communications, Infonas, PCCW Global, and Sparkle.

The release includes CNTT’s first whack at its container-based reference architecture that defines a Kubernetes-based architectures for use as part of the CNTT project.

Despite growing financial losses tied to its deployment plans Rakuten Mobile still found money to purchase its OSS vendor Innoeye.

"Our network teams both kept the current systems running smoothly and have continued to deliver on our long-term innovation strategy," AT&T's Scott Mair said.

“Our competitors edge offerings are more limited and focused on being an on-ramp into their public clouds," said IBM Cloud CTO Hillery Hunter.

Complexities were abundant and corralling vendors for a virtualized, cloud-native, open radio access network required intensive work.

“You need to be the owner of your own destiny and this disaggregation strategy needs to be looked at as a holistic end-to-end story,” said Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin.

China Mobile donated XGVela, which has also gained support or interest from China Unicom, China Telecom, ZTE, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, and Red Hat.

The project aims to create an open, software-defined access network for gigabit internet service.

The goal is to provide service providers using ONAP with more flexibility in creating intent-based policies while supporting automation use cases.

The work is targeted at helping telecommunication operators deploy virtual network functions in support of 5G services.