Cisco merges Viptela tech with its routers; Silver Peak, Aryaka top SD-WAN revenue rankings; and AT&T explains white box plans.

U.S. Air Force soars to the cloud for $1B; Dell EMC bests Nutanix; Machine learning for networks.

We need more SD-WAN vendors to write about (and also new socks).

Qualcomm rejects Broadcom board nominees; Ericsson, Vodafone complete pre-standard 5G test; CENX signs Open API Manifesto.

AWS opens its 17th global region; ZTE launches IoT Platform; Verizon opens 5G-enabled lab.

ETSI launches AR group; Canonical and Rancher Labs build joint platform; VeloCloud extends to AWS.

AT&T wants white box routers; VMware swoops on VeloCloud; Cisco Ericsson partnership wavers.

Hyperledger reaches 183 members; Azure adds location services; and AWS debuts new VR, IoT, and more at re:Invent.

Cisco throws $1B at smart cities; Ericsson files first 5G patent; AT&T gears up for the Super Bowl.

Telstra and Ericsson complete 5G data call; SoftBank increases stake in Sprint; Edgecore Networks contributes hardware for white box packet transponder to TIP.

Juniper realigns workforce; Dell EMC and Nutanix fight for No. 1 HCI spot; Cisco's $1.9B purchase.

CenturyLink closes on Level 3 for $34B; Microsoft Azure to triple its capacity in China; Telefonica Chile virtualizes its core network with Ericsson.

ZTE reports a nine-month net profit growth of 36.58 percent; ZeroStack extends its hardware support to Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) hardware.

GE partners with Apple on IoT; Intel invests $60 million in 15 technology startups; Alibaba works with Red Hat.

Juniper cuts Q3 forecasts; Vodafone exec calls for vendors to collaborate; and ETSI to connect NFV and OSS.

BT and SK Telecom partner with the Telecom Infra Project; CenturyLink and Level 3 merger gets DOJ approval.

Air Force soars to cloud for $1B; Dell EMC rises to the top of HCI; OVH takes on US market.

Google Cloud acquires Bitium; Cisco completes acquisition of Springpath; AWS plans to open a new infrastructure region.

CenturyLink and Cisco Meraki team up on WiFi; GTT completes $100M Global Capacity purchase.

Intel contributed its virtual evolved packet core to ONF.

ONF consolidates open source communities; More than 21,000 people attended the first Mobile World Congress Americas.

The system will support customizable signature sets for more than 7,000 applications.

The prime driver is to engineer flexible and scalable networks.

Security vendor Dataiku raised $28 million; ECI extends switching to metro networks.