The demonstration is using open APIs to connect the entire system to a programmable optical network SDN orchestrator.

Separate reports from Synergy Research and 650 Group pegged the market at between $44 billion and $49 billion last year.

The APIs are designed to complement ongoing work by 3GPP and other industry groups working for common, open, multi-vendor networks.

The platform integrates the VxWorks proprietary real-time operating system that first premiered in 1985, and Wind River Linux.

The new product joins VMware’s other two Kubernetes offerings: Enterprise PKS and Cloud PKS.

The moves further tightens integration across SAP's platforms, but analysts warn it could deter new customers outside of that ecosystem.

The project is being supported by technology partners Intel, Cisco, Qualcomm, Nokia, Altiostar, and Tech Mahindra.

The report had the U.S. ahead of three Asia-Pacific countries: China, South Korea, and Japan.

With the API, carriers will have a common access system for a diverse range of services, including how base stations function for 5G mobile systems.

The duo claims 20 contract wins since the partnership was announced last September. This includes a trio of service providers.

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

The company's software is designed to support SDN in core, aggregation, and provider edge networks, and complement SDN in other parts of a network.

The COMAC initiative is focused on delivering services over both mobile and broadband networks while supporting subscriber management and maintaining a consistent service experience without regard to the access

The China-based firm held a commanding lead in global sales over rivals Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco. Combined, those four vendors controlled 86 percent of the market.

The new products include a pair of routers that expand Juniper’s Metro Fabric line and a new edge line card offering a three-fold increase in card and system capacity

The vendor last year said it would open a software development center and ASIC design center in Austin, Texas. The two facilities will develop 5G products and software and

The trial is part of Cisco’s 5G RuralFirst initiative to contribute to the business case for improving connectivity beyond cities.

Red Hat and Affirmed Networks helped with the deployment. Turkcell is on track to have 40 percent of its voice and data services capacity virtualized by year-end.

The Fujitsu components are layered on top of a previous Shaw coax upgrade to provide network speeds in excess of 1 Gb/s.

The company expanded data protection with new and enhanced features to its Data Domain and Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) products.

The report, which was sourced by ZTE, does admit that its findings aren’t likely to change the minds of many operators.

One analyst said Ericsson is responding to a concern by carriers about following the old fashioned "build it and they will come" approach to network deployment.

Some companies left the university-based research group to re-asses their 5G efforts. There are now 14 affiliates, each chipping in $100,000 toward 5G research.

One analyst called the announcement “brilliant” because it is designed to help enterprise IT shops deal with “IoT havoc as the network edge is now stretched to the last