“We always imagined that the Red Hats of this space would appear,” but it hasn't happened, ONF's Timon Sloane said.

The updates promise to make the deployment of complex network fabrics, like EVPN-VXLAN, faster and simpler for campus switching customers.

Cisco's recent cloud and colocation partnerships are the foundation of a grander play leveraging ThousandEyes to shape SD-WAN routing policy.

Software security alone is no longer sufficient to protect users from cyberthreats, but silicon can help, Intel's Mike Nordquist said.

Vodafone confirmed 100% renewable energy usage in Europe beginning July 1; Nutanix’s CEO eyes a $61B market opportunity; and Dell’s Omnia automates HPC.

This isn’t a pivot for the SDN pioneer, but rather an “expansion of the field of view,” said CTO and co-founder Brandon Heller.

Arm announced technical specifications for its Confidential Compute Architecture; Illumio reached a $2.75 billion valuation; and ONF shared three branches of its private network project.

SD-Core and SD-Fabric join the previously announced SD-RAN project, comprising the three primary layers of ONF’s project for private network architecture.

Multi-vendor integrations remain a key requirement for customers, said Mansour Karam, Apstra founder and Juniper VP of product.

TIP rolls out a disaggregated WiFi template; Nokia and Dish target 5G open RAN security; and Cisco boosts its optical networking stack.

The acquisition adds SDN automation and telemetry to Cisco's optical networking stack.

“Today is a proof point of the transformation of that core to a cloud-first, modern operational experience of our storage business,” HPE's Tom Black said.

Palo Alto Networks called EDR a "really stupid idea;" VMware eyed 5G core opportunities; and Nokia plugged a triple-threat enterprise strategy.

“Private 5G is very much a relationship between a carrier often, equipment providers, such as ourselves, such as Ericsson, and the enterprise," Cradlepoint's Donna Johnson said.

The partnership will see China Mobile Cloud deploy Nuage Network's Virtual Cloud Services platform for virtual private cloud and bare metal routing.

Microsoft will pay $19.7B for Nuance; IBM named its infrastructure spinoff; and Comcast software jumped into the CNCF Sandbox.

Nvidia's BlueField-3 DPU is capable of offloading 300 CPU cores worth of SDN, storage, security, and AI workloads.

The reorganization effort resulted in the creation of VMware’s Service Provider and Edge Business Unit and is being led by Sanjay Uppal, SVP and GM of the unit.

Oracle's Ellison threw a dig at SAP; CrowdStrike and Trend Micro faced off on XDR; and Cisco revealed its private 5G network vision.

Palo Alto Networks SASE-fied Comcast SDN; Nokia hastened its shift to cloud; and SolarWinds' CEO claimed software will block breaches.

The move combines Comcast Business’ ActiveCore SDN platform and Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access SASE platform for branch network and mobile user security.

The grant process is also about encouraging the cybersecurity industry to engage with these nonprofits because diversity is imperative to moving the industry forward.

“We sit at a critical point where there are significant architectural changes that are starting to happen that will fundamentally transform" network infrastructure, Cisco's Jonathan Davidson said.

Multiple changes and less obvious signs suggest AT&T has relinquished its leadership role on virtualization, according to LightCounting.