Verizon wanted to be a part of whatever secret NFV services the Mehta brothers are working on.

HP makes more negative headlines, IPv4 dries up, and AWS' outage becomes a learning opportunity.

SK Telecom applies NFV to VoLTE, after dabbling with a vEPC.

ZTE opens an OPNFV test bed and starts collecting NFV partners.

Ericsson and Huawei pitch in for the fourth ONOS code release in 10 months.

Operators don't want TM Forum to get lost in NFV technicalities. They want the focus on making money.

Intel boosts IoT for cars; former Cisco and Time Warner CTOs intersect; Khosla Ventures funds Gitlab.

Mirantis says customers want it to deliver NFV magic with all the bells and whistles, so it's assembling vendor partners to make it happen.

Virtual customer premises equipment is one of several use cases for NFV, but the topic gets top billing at an NFV industry conference.

Before NFV was even born, ClearPath had a vision for a containerized vCPE.

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The NEC subsidiary gives Telefónica a hand with SDN and NFV.

Oracle Leverages a layer of the ETSI NFV MANO framework to orchestrate both physical and virtual network functions.

Faster speeds were fine for 4G, but 5G brings SDN into play.

Giddy up, y'all! AWS is looking to buy, while Gigamon and RSA team up. Find out more in this week's roundup.

Telefónica brings Juniper edge routers into the fold — but incumbent Alcatel-Lucent says it's not being displaced by the deal.

Google and Cisco take the top 2 spots.

VMware shuffles execs and ponders vCloud Air's future, all in advance of VMworld.

AT&T's massive NFV cloud is among a growing number of production OpenStack deployments, Adrian Ionel says.

Pivotal changes CEOs; Huawei goes big with Linux.

The latest open source project goes deep into the Linux kernel to improve networking.

Rift.io and CENX get additional funding, while F5 and Ciena have personnel changes.

ETSI NFV reaches out to the rest of the open networking community.

Adtran assures us it isn't stuck in telecom's old world.