The vendors say they have more than 50 communication service providers running live production mobile networks with Ericsson VNFs on VMware’s platform.

The boost is a virtual security processing unit (SPU) technology that powers VNFs for delivering increased application security with only a small footprint that requires less storage and a

Verizon adds a secure connection to Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure debuts new data services; 6Wind and Advantech work together on white boxes.

The two vendors are jointly developing a hardware management platform for service providers that combines Ericsson SDI Manager software and Intel Rack Scale Design architecture and software.

Orange claims the largest enterprise SD-WAN deployment in the world rolling out more than 1,500 sites with its Flexible SD-WAN service.

Ciena anticipates that the Blue Planet Division will reach $50 million to $60 million in annual revenue during fiscal 2019, growing to $100 million to $120 million in 2021.

JHComp, an ISP based in the Czech Republic, migrated from its legacy Vyatta vRouters to the 6WIND platform without having to reconfigure its SuperMicro white boxes.

The platform divides the two flows – the control layer and the data layer – and handles them in a way that makes sense for each.

By the end of this year, 74 percent of the service providers said they will use SDN to deliver new services, while 65 percent will use it in operations

This is the latest in a series of major changes at Vodafone, which just said goodbye to a number of executives and announced large real estate changes in the

Accenture has been working on a commercial version of ONAP to support providers’ transition from hardware-based to software-based networks.

The testing included work on the functional components of the Wind River virtualization platform, including interoperability with Open Source MANO (OSM) orchestration.

The British telecommunications provider chose SevOne to step up the level of automation of service management it can provide to its customers.

InterDigital competes with Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, and Samsung. These vendors also do technology innovation in conjunction with emerging standards. But their standards work is “subsumed” within other business

AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch said the carrier is at 63 percent SDN control of its network operations that can be virtualized, pushing toward its goal of 65 percent control

“SDN is going to be a very broad deployment,” said Telus’ Bryce Mitchell. “We made sure we included SDN within the NFV pods themselves.”

The company was pretty revolutionary with its idea to layer SDN on top of multiple third-party transport before all the SD-WAN vendors conceived of this.

The service provider is hoping to launch a cost-effective uCPE platform that supports more VNFs along with its SD-WAN early next year.

In working with the ONF, Comcast is breaking with a long cable tradition of not sharing technology and innovation ideas with competitors.

OSM Release Five adds support for network slicing and employs a microservices architecture to make it a viable choice for 5G use cases.

Bill Walker, director of network architecture and innovation with CenturyLink, said there are three business cases for NFV. The worst business case is for new technology that is not

The latest update uses an in-house developed open source version of OpenStack that provides for more agility and a smaller footprint to support edge computing environments.

The 5G-related network infrastructure market will grow from about $528 million in 2018 to $26 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate of 118 percent, predicts IDC.

MEF President Nan Chen said the organization has transformed from a pure-play standards group to a software and specification development organization.