The data center giant will pursue business opportunities in NFV, IoT, and 5G services, according to the new CEO.

Telefónica taps Netcracker for BSS; Cisco launches hybrid cloud platform for Google Cloud; China considers a merger of its three wireless carriers.

A DonRiver team of specialized OSS software, integration, and consulting experts will form a specialized services group within the Blue Planet Organization.

The Project Volutus joint venture with Crown Castle will now be fully under control of Vapor IO, which will now handle the deployment and service management through its Kinetic

Comarch recently won a contract with South Korean 5G operator LG U+ to replace its OSS stack.

Verizon is a CENX customer. CENX employees, including new CEO Edward Kennedy, will become part of Ericsson when the deal closes this quarter.

Cisco targets 1 million routers for SD-WAN; a Cisco SVP shakeup; and Arista's (surprising) first acquisition.

Dell said edge products and services represent a massive opportunity, and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined his company’s telco strategy.

The Lavelle Networks SD-WAN software appliance sits within an NFV container in a Microsoft Windows environment for greater control and enhanced network management.

For its inaugural telecom NFVI report, IDC says an example of orchestration would be ONAP.

XCloud Networks taps SDN and NFV for custom networking. And the startup won Innova as its second customer to replace its existing data center infrastructure.

The vendor has sidled up next to Nokia and Ericsson as a dominant 5G equipment supplier to the largest carriers in the U.S.

The capacity is correlated with consumption-based pricing, which service providers have been wanting for a long time.

The platform will be integrated into VMware's Telco NFV portfolio. This will add automated service assurance capabilities to support virtual network function deployments.

“But once you get there those investments you are making to achieve that goal ebb out. They either come down or effectively stabilize,” said CFO John Stephens.

Arrcus takes on Cisco, Arista, and Juniper on white boxes; Dell and VMware strike a deal; and AWS gets into white box switches?

In the first half of 2018, Spirent boasted a number of 5G development wins and partnerships, including one with China Mobile.

Huawei's first half of 2018 revenues increased 15 percent year over year; Harbor joins CNCF; Linux Foundation and Hyperledger continue to grow.

The SNAPS-Kubernetes platform helps to deliver virtual network functions that use fewer resources, are more fault-tolerant, and can scale quickly to meet demand.

AT&T’s other virtualization platform, FlexWare, now includes SD-WAN from VMware/VeloCloud.

There is more interest in training than there is good quality training available, says the Linux Foundation.

The joint offering enables providers to mix and match SD-WAN components and services, without being tied to a specific hardware.

Ericsson prevails in EPC; Kubernetes preps to replace OpenStack, VMware; AT&T dumps its data center assets.

Tintri continues to dissolve, slashes employees; AT&T buys AppNexus for $1.6 billion; Microsoft Azure IoT Edge is open sourced on GitHub.