“The challenge is it’s not standardized. It’s an association. Because things are not standardized, no standards, you don’t get cooperation, you don’t get competition, you don’t get innovation," Huawei

The move comes as companies in nearly every industry come under the pressure of the chip crunch, with many facing higher component prices and longer lead times.

The Connected Climate Initiative promotes clean technology and AT&T’s connectivity services to help customers and partners avoid a gigaton of CO2e emissions by 2035.

Ciena will acquire AT&T’s Vyatta virtual routing and switching technology; HPE's Aruba grew 27% year over year; and Microsoft hired Charlie Bell.

HPE saw robust growth across most of its business units, with the company's Aruba intelligent edge business growing by the largest margin, up 27% year over year.

“We'd bet heavily on our switching and routing portfolio to address what we think is an opportunity for us in this new emerging metro edge cloud market,” Ciena CEO

Verizon activated its private, on-premise MEC service with Microsoft Azure; 91% of Nutanix’s Q4 sales were from software subscriptions; and Intel embraces chiplet architecture.

The managed services offering integrates Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge and layers in additional features, depending on enterprise requirements.

The operator said it remains on track to add 1.2 million fiber connections before 2022, leading up to 10 million connections by the end of 2024.

The updates are built into Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS) and include segment routing and Ethernet VPN, and supports Arista’s R3-series switches.

The chipmaker's latest infrastructure processing units are the first to utilize its Agilex FPGA, while the upcoming Mount Evans platform will use a custom ASIC, a first for Intel.

The most senior shakeup is the impending exit of current CTO Kumar Sreekanti, who joined the company just two years ago.

Dell’Oro Research Director Baron Fung projects that data center server spending will grow at an 11% compound annual growth rate over the next five years.

Cloudflare will eliminate its legacy footprint by 2025; Dish's commercial 5G availability has been pushed to 2022; and Extreme Networks acquired Infovista’s Ipanema SD-WAN division.

“We're 100% renewable: that's our commitment. But we are in 200 cities worldwide where we have hardware, and not all the data centers themselves use 100% renewable power,” Cloudflare

Turnium is one of more than 40 partner vendors that have deployed products on the IBM Cloud for Telecommunications service.

“A key use case for government that the Lumen/T-Mobile fixed wireless solution addresses, is continuity for mission-critical communications,” T-Mobile VP David Bezzant said.

KT’s 5G SA core deployment brings the total global footprint of 5G SA cores to nine. T-Mobile US activated the world’s first 5G SA network operating on a 5G

'Just because you turn off the lights doesn’t mean the cockroaches aren’t there. You just can’t see them,' Cisco's Bob Everson said

Palo Alto Networks announced a virtual firewall designed for use with Nvidia’s DPUs; Microsoft will acquire RiskIQ; and AT&T sold off multiple pieces of technology central to its 5G

Google said it intends to activate at least 15 zones across major U.S. cities during the next few years

Intel appointed Greg Lavender as CTO; Exabeam's valuation increased to $2.4 billion after hiring a new CEO; and StackPath appointed Keith Wilson as CFO.

“The reality is that operators are at a crossroads,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said.

The shakeup marks the first major restructuring since former VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger was installed as CEO and the latest high-profile departure from VMware.