From foliage that blocks antennas to bandwidth speeds that vary dramatically, global operators open up about the good, bad, and ugly of their 5G trials.

Ankur Singla says that solving business problems has more value than simply selling a technology.

By making switching smarter, operators can lower latency and increase bandwidth.

The data center giant also added private, direct connections to Microsoft Azure cloud services in Miami and Paris.

The company is using SDN technology to combine service edge routers for Ethernet and IP-based services. Software control will come from a single common compute platform based on x86

Microsoft reported cloud revenues of $6 billion, while AWS reported revenues of $5.4 billion for the quarter.

Ericsson brings 5G to Italy; Cisco enhances its SAN offerings; NetFoundry and AWS team up on IoT.

The operator’s latest open source project named OnLife tackles multi-access edge computing and other 5G use cases, using CORD-like software.

The box runs a real-time OPNFV-compatible, OpenStack-distribution built to run in small data centers or at base station locations.

The operator said it is on track to launch 5G in a handful of markets later this year but is still cagey about the details. Launch cities remain a

Before deploying SD-WAN, the company was using “a spaghetti mess” of handcrafted tunnels with combinations of Sonicwall firewalls, third party tunnels, and Cisco ASA firewalls. The result was “awful

The chip company’s IoT strategy includes pushing processing to the edge, instead of the cloud.

The Azure Sphere technology includes a thumbnail-sized micro-controller unit, a Linux-based operating system, and a cloud-based security service.

The automated deployment capabilities are compatible with current standards and reference ongoing ETSI work on defining objectives for automated, intelligent management in NFV- and SDN-centric networks.

Riverbed CEO retires; Manoj Leelanivas returns to Juniper; and Microsoft reorganizes.

The trials will begin in New York City and Salt Lake City using mmWave spectrum, software-defined radios, edge cloud, and advanced optical networking.

The $5 billion IoT and edge investment comes a week after a companywide reorganization that prioritizes Microsoft’s cloud and edge products over Windows.

The deal ends Intel’s near decade of ownership of Wind River. The embedded software firm will keep its existing management team when it's independent.

Microsoft will form two new business units, one focused on end-user “experience and devices” and a second on cloud and AI.

The project launched last month uses source code from AT&T and is targeted at developing carrier-grade computing applications running in virtual machines and containers. The community expects to release

Vapor IO’s Project Volutus edge network is live in Chicago and the company said it will power 27 additional sites by year-end.

The white box routers are part of a “radical realignment” of AT&T's network architecture and means the carrier will no longer rely on proprietary silicon and feature roadmaps from

Dell EMC today rolled out an open universal CPE platform designed to support multiple virtual network functions and software-defined wide area networking.

ETSI MEC is working with ETSI NFV to determine how to deploy MEC in an NFV environment.