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.

Cornerstone’s platform uses automation to convert any programming language or database into any other language or database and prepare legacy workloads for cloud-native environments.

Mavenir’s fully virtualized 4G and 5G open RAN offering became commercially available to operators in October 2019.

The carrier worked with Vodafone, Verizon, and Orange on making the CNTT process work across each operator’s vendor ecosystem.

The network uses Cisco’s NCS5500 series routers that were updated last year to support 400GbE capabilities.

“We are the first telecommunications vendor who is bringing programmability into the operations center,” said Nokia's Miikka Karhuluoma.

Arista Networks buys Big Switch; VMware loses $237M patent infringement lawsuit; and Nokia cuts 180 jobs with more to come.

SDN killed AT&T jobs; VMware lost $237M in a patent infringement lawsuit; and Windstream SD-WAN gained data analytics services.

“By going SDN these very big network operations are becoming extremely efficient to run, and that means unfortunately jobs," analyst Roger Entner said.

Cisco joined the on-premises Kubernetes party; the U.K. banned Huawei from 5G core networks; and Apstra added time travel to IBN.

The software release also includes extended enterprise-class support for the SONiC open source network operating system.

If the merger is blocked and the operators remain separate companies, their respective 5G plans are going to evolve considerably and quickly.

The software giant says Nyansa will enable improved network visibility, monitoring, and remediation features for its VeloCloud SD-WAN platform.

Cisco advanced intent-based networking; SK boasted standalone 5G first; and Citrix swatted ADC, Gateway bugs.

This move Cisco another step closer to fully automated, self-correcting networks, or what the vendor and others call intent-based networking.

The reports cover the impact of “alternative virtualization technologies” and provide a deeper look into network slicing and edge computing systems.