The Spain-based telecom giant plans to offer the service through a virtual network function marketplace it’s developing.

The partnership gives enterprises and service providers the opportunity to purchase SD-WAN deployment and IT consulting services from one vendor.

Riding on Dell EMC’s VEP4600, a universal CPE (uCPE), ADVA’s Ensemble Connector can consolidate VNF management on a single piece of hardware.

The VNFs are initially launching in five locations: London; Amsterdam; Singapore; California's Silicon Valley; and Ashburn, Virginia.

The group released the draft of its SD-WAN service definition standard, with the official publication of the standard expected in July following board approval.

The company’s virtual SD-WAN application will run on top of ECI’s uCPE or third-party uCPEs and will be able to run alongside multiple virtual network functions.

Affirmed Networks today announced UnityCloud, a cloud-native mobile core that the company claims to be the industry’s first 5G standalone (SA) mobile core.

MEF’s Dan Pitt on how the forum is accelerating the availability of automated, multi-technology services through the abstraction of lifecycle service orchestration.

The open source groups already work together. But they also have their own initiatives related to NFV and edge computing, among other technologies.

The three-year old startup first made its way into SD-WAN in 2018, developing a carrier-centric service for smaller enterprise customers on a budget.

Will open source usher in the second-wave of SD-WAN? flexiWAN's co-founder and CEO Amir Zmora thinks so.

The offering is based on TelcoSystems’ NFVTime product suite, which is a service-ready, plug-and-play uCPE that allows service providers to service chain multiple VNFs alongside the SD-WAN.

The company leveraged its purchase of Mist to extend cloud management to the full enterprise beyond the WAN and into the wired network, and beyond the branch into the

The reference designs offer a peek inside the brains of operators, Timon Sloane, VP of marketing and ecosystem at the Open Networking Foundation, told SDxCentral in an interview.

Lean NFV says "current NFV efforts are drowning in a quicksand of complexity," and proposes a decoupling of NFV’s core components.

The Open Platform for NFV now includes virtual network function compliance testing in conjunction with the Open Network Automation Platform community.

For VMware's VeloCloud-based SD-WAN, the road ahead includes containers, VMs, VNFs, 5G, hybrid- and multi-clouds, and gateway federation.

The new specifications broaden support for different access technologies and NFV integration.

The update includes additional application intelligence capabilities, a cloud-based orchestrator, session-based routing and path selection, and a cloud application database.

The service uses Nokia’s Nuage Networks for SD-WAN, Fortinet for virtual security services, Netcracker for VNF management, and Cisco for services orchestration.

Windstream files for bankruptcy; containerd graduates at CNCF; and news, partnerships, and releases from MWC Barcelona.

A day after VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger touted the operator as one of its top customers, the companies said that VMware is Vodafone’s primary strategic partner for telco cloud

There are "about 60 service providers that use VMware technology to build their telco cloud," Pat Gelsinger said at MWC.

Pivotal and Samsung join the O-RAN Alliance; Splunk withdraws from Russia; Microsoft expands its security service into Europe.