Cumulus added open source network automation; Telefónica to lead yet another edge alliance; and Oracle cloud gained Ampere chip.

Results from CNCF's annual survey indicate growing ubiquity of the use of cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, service mesh, and serverless.

It uses Ansible for automation, and it helps companies deploy networks using infrastructure as code instead of configuring and managing their IT infrastructure manually.

Coronavirus canceled more tech events; Equinix paid $335 million for Packet; and Rakuten Mobile dismissed open RAN skeptics.

The open RAN framework is 40% cheaper than traditional telecommunication infrastructure, according to CTO Tareq Amin.

Aether, pronounced “ether,” is the first open source edge cloud platform and the first open platform supporting connectivity as a service, according to ONF.

The company began to lose momentum coming out of its latest fiscal year in which it made 10 acquisitions.

The Facebook-backed consortium announced a string of new initiatives including the launch of its Evenstar remote radio unit and plans to develop disaggregated open routers.

Google showed love for Intel’s security transparency; VMware gained an extra boost with cloud security layer; and Nokia’s cloud aspirations soared

"Our vision is to create one common platform that runs any workload in VMs or containers across any footprint ... with the same experience across the board," said Red

It recruited Kontena's leadership and employees that were behind the Pharos Kubernetes distribution and Lens multi-cluster Kubernetes dashboard.

The group also today made available OpenDXL Ontology, which it says is the first open source language for connecting security tools.

Exposures and data breaches due to misconfigurations have become an “alarmingly common” trend according to StackRox’s latest Kubernetes Security Report.

“We’re not going to convince anybody until you see our first market and you can touch it, and feel it, and see why it’s different,” said Dish's Charlie Ergen.

Later this week the vendor will launch a new product for cloud workloads that supports containers and Kubernetes.

The new N2D VMs can support machine types with up to 224 virtual CPUs, which is the largest general-purpose VM on Google’s Compute Engine.

Ericsson is also adding containers on a bare metal cloud infrastructure, which it claims can save operators up to 30% on operational costs compared to virtual machines.

Mavenir won 5G deals in Japan and Germany; the SASE space race is heating up; and Fortinet and Adtran teamed up to woo SD-WAN providers.

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.”

Mavenir’s fully virtualized 4G and 5G open RAN offering became commercially available to operators in October 2019.

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

Cisco patched zero-day vulnerabilities in millions of devices; the White House backed US 5G plan; and IBM CTO called open source vital to edge success.

Nick Reed said a delay of up to five years could result if it has to replace Huawei equipment that is already installed across its European footprint.

The Trump administration has been talking about empowering U.S.-based companies to take the lead on 5G for about 18 months, but the market realities are unchanged.