Many Chinese service providers are reliant upon ZTE’s optical gear for their transport networks and backhaul. And switching to another vendor is not that easy.

One analyst said Ciena was the source of the current price war in the optical networking space.

The company rolled out its first PaaS and SaaS products at its .NEXT conference.

Developing software on Optane hardware reduces transaction costs for latency-sensitive workloads and increases scale per server.

The agent AppMon's sensors are pervasively deployed in a host environment to generate precise granular performance measurement, impairment detection, and anomaly detection.

Union leaders lash out at CenturyLink's CEO Glen Post, but it's likely the layoffs come from former Level 3 executives who are taking over leadership of the company.

The South Korean company provided the LTE core and RAN gear for the Indian operator’s greenfield network. The scale of the network is bigger than AT&T and Verizon’s networks

Google releases workflow creation beta; Deutsche Telekom puts 5G technology on German soil; HPE and Red Hat collaborate on containers.

HPE openly snubs Huawei over claim of partnership; Russians exploit Cisco routers for cyberattacks; and ZTE is banned from buying U.S. components.

Company execs are already in Washington, D.C., meeting with the DOJ and the FCC about the Sprint merger.

The online payments company said it is paying half of what it paid to have six sites outfitted with MPLS to deploy Cato SD-WAN on 14 sites at a

During his Dell Technologies World keynote, Gelsinger detailed the company’s “vision for the future of networking.” That future looks like NSX.

The next phase of the operator's 5G trials will include at least 100 base stations in each of the five test cities. The trials will use equipment from multiple

Verizon and AT&T have very different viewpoints on offering fixed 5G service. But both operators admit that there are lots of unknowns when it comes to 5G.

Automation and virtualization reduce costs and time to market for new services. And software allows companies to moving to an “everything-as-a-service” business model.

The bad news just won't stop for Huawei. This latest investigation seems similar to the case against ZTE because it involves selling equipment to Iran.

ADVA is not part of ONAP, but it wants to support carriers like Verizon that are committed to the platform.

The service providers interviewed believe that cellular IoT technologies, such as Cat-M1 and NB-IoT, will be “game changers.”

HPE says that Huawei's claim that is is partnering with HPE is not true. This is just the latest public relations problem for Huawei in the U.S.

Huawei is working with several third-party vendors to enhance its SD-WAN. These include Riverbed Technology, F5, and HPE.

An integrated SD-WAN security product would likely involve at least three Cisco technologies: Viptela SD-WAN, Meraki network automation, and Umbrella cloud security.

CenturyLink tracks botnets and the C2 servers they communicate with to thwart distributed denial of service attacks.

Ciena stands to be a winner because it competes with ZTE. Infinera and Nokia might benefit as well.

Cisco expects the ratio of IT people to devices to increase from 1 to 1,000 to 1 to 100,000 in just a couple of years.