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 platform allows companies to better manage data that must remain on premises due to compliance, security, or latency reasons.

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

Metaswitch’s routing and control plane protocols run as applications on top of AT&T’s disaggregated network operating system. That dNOS platform this week moved to the open source community as

Microsoft is working with Intel, Facebook, and Google to implement Project Cerberus security architecture. It plans to contribute the open hardware security specs to OCP.

The next step is to integrate with SDN controller as part of ECOMP.

The platform interoperates with the GSMA's Mobile Connect technology.

India’s Reliance Jio is the only carrier involved in the Cisco group.

ETSI NFV endeavors to make VNFs as open as possible.

The deal boosts VMware's multi-cloud and security plays.

The data center company expects to hit $5 billion in revenue in 2018.

Multi-cloud means everything has to be connected to everything else.

It's not standards work so much as it is end-to-end testing.

Nokia opens a multi-cloud design center; VMware releases AWS Greengrass on vSphere; Qualcomm starts a 5G Initiative in China.

The startup spun out of the U.S. National Security Agency.

The technology can detect malware in encrypted traffic without decryption.

MEC and CORD are seen as key pillars of next-gen network architectures.

The FCC's Ajit Pai cancels visit to CES; Elliot completes Gigamon purchase; InfoVista and Ericsson sign interoperability initiative.

Some organizations are taking the forklift approach too literally.

Updates focused on attacks against security and compliance processes.

New SDxCentral research finds that three licenses are used most often for open source networking projects.

The platform is compatible with open source container orchestration projects, including Kubernetes.

Chef and Puppet both trail Red Hat Ansible as DevOps tool of choice.

Cisco throws $1B at smart cities; Ericsson files first 5G patent; AT&T gears up for the Super Bowl.