MEF aims for its SD-WAN service standardization to accelerate sales of SD-WAN products and services like MEF accomplished with Carrier Ethernet service standardization.

Microsoft completes GitHub purchase; Verizon names its fifth 5G city; Nokia and Samsung extend patent license agreement.

Jonathan Bryce, the executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, said that the scope of edge computing is extremely large, and StarlingX is needed to fill one of the spaces

The platform allows enterprise customers to deploy and manage applications and services that reside in the carrier’s private cloud. It comes with a 99.9 percent SLA for uptime.

These 10 security companies raised more than $499 million in just the last month as security remains a top priority for many enterprises.

Kaloom says its software-defined fabric approach provides more flexibility than a more integrated model like DANOS.

CenturyLink becomes an expert Microsoft Azure MSP; Huawei debuts a series of AI chips; Google releases its alert center for security threats.

The NFV vendor says it can demonstrate more than 30 percent cost savings on Arm-based hardware. Telco Systems now has three different manufacturers for Arm boxes.

Perhaps the biggest benefit of containers is that they can be managed by Kubernetes, which is a pre-defined operational model.

6WIND has been gaining customers by offering a replacement to Brocade’s vRouter, which was purchased by AT&T and taken off the market.

In a business update conference call with investors the firm's CEO said Radcom is dealing with the challenges of a lengthy NFV sales cycle and the immaturity of the

The turnkey model is designed to help service providers get into NFV without spending years to build their own telco clouds.

Dell Technologies applies to list shares on NYSE; AT&T names new preliminary 5G markets; Google launches tools for its Kubernetes Engine.

Tier 1 service providers have connected to public clouds with relative ease. But Tier 2 and Tier 3 providers are struggling to create this connectivity, according to Tata.

Good integrated CI/CD and an orchestrator like Kubernetes could negate the need for MANO.

Vasona Networks gets purchased by ZephyrTel; Kubernetes releases its newest version; and news out of Microsoft Ignite.

Paired with the P4 programming language, Barefoot’s Tofino chip gives users the freedom to design what the chip can do.

“The path forward is an open platform,” said Adva’s Prayson Pate, adding that an open platform will meet the full-potential of an agile and flexible SD-WAN.

“We had inflated expectations” because the promise was vendors could easily obtain commodity hardware and “throw some VNFs on it and it would make money," said a Masergy executive.

Worldwide revenue for the telco VNF market in 2017 stood at only $2.5 billion.

Exfo is onboarding its service assurance VNFs into the Amdocs NFV software and services portfolio, which is powered by ONAP.

Dell EMC brings hardware production in-house, dumps Celestica; Microsoft buys AI firm Lob; and Deutsche Telekom makes updates to Bavaria mobile network.

Although Tier 1 operators are leading the way with NFV, the research firm says that it believes smaller operators will begin to see the benefits as well.

SDN and NFV are contributing to the growth of interconnection because these technologies make it easier for customers to consume more bandwidth.