Dell and Apstra targeted enterprise SONiC adoption with networking hardware, software, and enterprise-grade technical support.

The program will continually test and certify compliance with ONF’s open source software projects and OCP-recognized open hardware.

Steven Wood, Cisco’s principal engineer of enterprise architectures and SD-WAN, made the statement as part of this week’s ONUG Virtual Live conference.

AT&T recommitted to its SDN goal; Arista will be within striking distance of its $100M campus revenue target; and Nvidia, Digital Realty teamed up on AI.

"Our network teams both kept the current systems running smoothly and have continued to deliver on our long-term innovation strategy," AT&T's Scott Mair said.

Together with Mellanox, Nvidia says Cumulus’ open networking platform will help accelerate the development and adoption of the software-defined data center.

The project aims to create an open, software-defined access network for gigabit internet service.

The IoT Video Security Fabric is available and in use by a municipal government in a “major European capital city,” Pluribus’ Jay Gill said.

The goal is to provide service providers using ONAP with more flexibility in creating intent-based policies while supporting automation use cases.

The companies aim to apply consistent service level agreements, security policies, and compliance data to applications and enterprise networks.

More than 225,000 branch offices have deployed VMware’s SD-WAN, said VMware’s Tom Gillis. “All of a sudden we’re No. 1.”

“This is a huge innovation cycle we have to go through,” Cisco's Scott Harrell said.

SDxCentral will be keeping a running list of changes to trade shows and events tied to the COVID-19 virus.

The vendor has a twofold strategy to address multiple orchestration and enterprise challenges in Kubernetes as telecommunication architectures migrate into the cloud-native space.

Cisco dreamed of 5G WAN; VMware's modern application strategy spun Kubernetes Goldilocks tale; and HPE’s 5G core went cloud native.

Tofino’s P4 programmability is what makes it important to Stateless, a startup targeting colocation providers and enterprises customers with its interconnection platform.

“Edge compute is like a private data center but worse, like way worse,” NetFoundry CEO Galeal Zino said.

Bharti Airtel is preparing to deploy 5G with an “IP over Ethernet over fiber” network that it describes as the “largest hyper-complex brownfield network transformation of its kind in

SONiC is now supported on Juniper’s QFX5210 single ASIC platform, including support for leaf and spine deployments in data centers.

Coronavirus canceled more tech events; Equinix paid $335 million for Packet; and Rakuten Mobile dismissed open RAN skeptics.

Xilinx claims its smartNIC will allow customers to offload 90% of Open vSwitch processing from the CPU for an improvement in packet throughput of more than 500%.

Aether, pronounced “ether,” is the first open source edge cloud platform and the first open platform supporting connectivity as a service, according to ONF.

Digital Ocean grabbed a $300M life preserver; Microsoft imported AWS logs for free; and U.S. Cellular began preparation for March 5G launch.

The partnership was driven by growing network complexity and a desire from enterprises for greater visibility of underlay and overlay networks.