That road uses a signaling interface to allow 4G LTE customers to continue data sessions between Rakuten and KDDI's networks.

“In the next three years economic forces will drive operators to go to open RAN," said Altiostar CEO Ashraf Dahod.

VMware’s network virtualization infrastructure supports voice core, data core, and service platforms on more than 900 virtual network functions.

The vendor's Managed Apps platform can oversee 10 cloud-native systems, including database and logging, monitoring, and alerting applications.

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The equipment provides an environment on which to run virtual network functions like those for SD-WAN.

The work is targeted at bridging the gap between VNFs that typically run on virtual machines (VMs) and CNFs that run in containerized environments.

The announcement marks Cisco's second service provider announcement in the past month.

The interconnection giant this week reported its 68th consecutive quarter of growth and said it ended fiscal year 2019 with $5.56 billion in revenue.

Millicom is taking the Affirmed vEPC platform to deploy virtualized services running on top of VMware’s vCloud NFV platform to support mobile and WiFi services in Latin America.

The Linux Foundation's Heather Kirksey likened OPNFV's current status to the Gartner Hype Cycle and looking to come out of the “through of disillusionment.”

The carrier worked with Vodafone, Verizon, and Orange on making the CNTT process work across each operator’s vendor ecosystem.

The two companies aim to develop new service delivery models for communication services providers.

“We are the first telecommunications vendor who is bringing programmability into the operations center,” said Nokia's Miikka Karhuluoma.

The open source security startup reported over 400% revenue growth in 2019 and says its customers include Google, Intuit, New Relic, and Salesforce.

The five-year contract will span more than 20 production sites in 11 countries across four continents for the Netherlands-based synthetic elastomer company.

The project was born from seed code donated by AT&T in 2018, and is targeted at developing carrier-grade computing applications running in VMs and containers.

The reports cover the impact of “alternative virtualization technologies” and provide a deeper look into network slicing and edge computing systems.

The Open Mobile Evolved Core (OMEC) platform supports connections into the carrier’s existing base stations, mobility management services, and lawful intercept platforms.

The vendors will run Silver Peak's SD-WAN, routing, segmentation, and WAN optimization software as a single NFV instance on Ciena's uCPE platforms.

“It has been a bit of a challenge to get that community excited about telecom and to get excited about working with us to advance networking," said LFN's Heather

Edge computing is a dispersion or distribution of the cloud and latency is the driving force of this evolution, said MEF CTO Pascal Menezes.

Aryaka's restructured SmartServices product line breaks out many features previously only available as part of the its SmartConnect SD-WAN platform.

MEF’s community has grown about 70% to more than 200 organizations during the last 18 months, and it expects to double that number by the end of 2020.