eBay ditches OpenStack in favor of Kubernetes and Docker; AT&T awards 5G contracts; Arista makes second acquisition.

Vasona Networks gets purchased by ZephyrTel; Kubernetes releases its newest version; and news out of Microsoft Ignite.

Dell EMC brings hardware production in-house, dumps Celestica; Microsoft buys AI firm Lob; and Deutsche Telekom makes updates to Bavaria mobile network.

Microsoft introduces Azure DevOps; OpenDaylight releases Fluorine ; and Sprint and Nokia collaborate on 5G.

Telefónica taps Netcracker for BSS; Cisco launches hybrid cloud platform for Google Cloud; China considers a merger of its three wireless carriers.

Cisco targets 1 million routers for SD-WAN; a Cisco SVP shakeup; and Arista's (surprising) first acquisition.

Vodafone Idea becomes the largest mobile operator in India; CenturyLink and VMware launch an IT partner program; AWS released its relational database service on VMware.

Red Hat unveils infrastructure migration for containers; AT&T completes its AlienVault acquisition; BT, TIP, and Facebook launch a startup competition.

Oracle open sources protocol for machine learning models; IEEE publishes new fog computing standards; and Cohesity achieves AWS storage competency.

Oracle debuts another autonomous database cloud service; Facebook open sources its transport layer security library; and AWS rolls out serverless option for Amazon Aurora.

Arrcus takes on Cisco, Arista, and Juniper on white boxes; Dell and VMware strike a deal; and AWS gets into white box switches?

Huawei's first half of 2018 revenues increased 15 percent year over year; Harbor joins CNCF; Linux Foundation and Hyperledger continue to grow.

Ericsson and Singtel set to launch Singapore 5G pilot this year; Dell EMC Unity gets an update; Teneo uses Riverbed tech for monitoring.

Swim secures $10 million; the three major South Korean mobile operators will work together on 5G; GE and Microsoft partner on industrial IoT.

The U.S. Justice Department appeals the AT&T-Time Warner merger; Tintri files for bankruptcy in the U.S., shutters in Europe; Ericsson divests Swedish field services operation.

Apple snubs Intel's 5G modem for its next-gen iPhone; ZTE names a new CEO; Ericsson opens a 5G lab in Delhi, India; InterDigital shows a 5G control plane.

Ericsson prevails in EPC; Kubernetes preps to replace OpenStack, VMware; AT&T dumps its data center assets.

Tintri continues to dissolve, slashes employees; AT&T buys AppNexus for $1.6 billion; Microsoft Azure IoT Edge is open sourced on GitHub.

ZTE stock sinks after U.S. Senate bill; T-Mobile and Sprint advance their proposed merger; and VMware works with the U.S. government and public sector.

The FCC repeals net neutrality; Intel finds a way to monetize 5G; and AT&T closes on its Time Warner deal.

Verizon debuts software-defined secure branch; Microsoft takes data centers underwater; and T-Mobile, Nokia complete 5G data session.

Russians exploit routers for cyber attacks, alerts Cisco; ZTE shutters manufacturing following U.S. ban; CA Technologies cuts 800 jobs as it shifts to a subscription-based, agile model.

Linux Foundation offers free course on open source networking; Apstra, Dell EMC, and Awnix deploy OpenSwitch

Intel and WindRiver contribute code to the OpenStack project; ETSI Open Source MANO issues Release Four; Samsung creates new silicon technology for high-performance computing.