The companies completed live tests of 5G in a Toronto stadium and plan to continue testing in other Canadian cities over the next year.

A U.K. government agency is also recommending that telcos not purchase equipment from ZTE.

These three initiatives are all focused on virtualizing the RAN, and some of the same companies belong to all three groups. But why are there three?

Operators want to be able to use different radio heads from different vendors and have them interoperate with existing baseband units. This spec will make that possible.

Intel debuts cloud-ready mainframes; Telefónica completes 5G automated car demo; Sprint and T-Mobile renew merger talks.

RAD's vAccess allows operators to use white boxes with VNFs over whatever access infrastructure they have installed.

The organization has more than 60 ongoing initiatives tied to its 3.0 framework and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) efforts. These include a multi-vendor software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) implementation.

Nokia wins a 50-percent share of the multi-vendor deal with China Mobile. The two companies are also working together on software-defined networking for China Mobile to expand its cloud

Juniper Networks will be one of the biggest consumers of Tungsten Fabric, but the name change helps distinguish it from Contrail.

The SD-WAN API leverages and extends Cisco's SD-WAN and its network monitoring platform by isolating problems using underlay and overlay network data.

The platform allows companies to better manage data that must remain on premises due to compliance, security, or latency reasons.

NEC/Netcracker will wrangle myriad vendors of hardware and software along with some open source code.

AT&T plans 60K white boxes; Dell EMC challenges Cisco in SD-WAN; Investors call a Dell-VMware merger a 'terrible deal.'

Mosaic NetworX integrated Connected2Fiber’s connected world platform with its Salesforce instance to more effectively design and sell its SD-WAN service.

Lumina can operate a single control plane that software defines the existing routed network and integrates white box switches.

The platform integrates with public and private cloud providers, and allows DevOps teams to deploy applications in minutes.

TM Forum and the Linux Foundation team up for APIs; Ericsson and Ambra Solutions build underground LTE network; Dell Technologies takes a step further to connected vehicles.

The disaggregation of the control plane and data plane with open interfaces feels a bit like the free-wheeling days of the early internet.

Nokia total revenues dipped 1 percent to $8.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Metaswitch’s routing and control plane protocols run as applications on top of AT&T’s disaggregated network operating system. That dNOS platform this week moved to the open source community as

The disaggregation push of its service provider OS includes support for routers using off-the-shelf silicon, but device support is limited to “a curated set of third-party devices.”

The Indian mobile operator is building a software-defined network (SDN) from scratch using Cisco, Samsung, and other vendors, along with cherry-picked open source code.

Many factors will influence capex spending including the type of 5G deployed, the spectrum bands used, and the amount of fiber available.

Visio Health used Cradlepoint to create plop-and-go connectivity at healthcare sites using its diagnostic telemedicine carts. Cradlepoint NetCloud offers IoT network and device management, optimized WAN path selection, and