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Cisco Dreams of a 5G WAN

Cisco says today's cellular networks, in particular 5G, will offer high enough throughput and low enough latency to be viable alternatives to traditional wired networks. Read more.

VMware Embraces Kubernetes as ‘Goldilocks Abstraction’

The vendor added native Kubernetes support to its Cloud Foundation software stack and products to its Kubernetes-focused Tanzu portfolio. Read more.

HPE Reveals Cloud Native Software for 5G Core

The company is trying to straddle the benefits of pairing software with its HPE GreenLake platform while also embracing an open, disaggregated approach. Read more.

Rakuten Mobile Plays the (Vendor) Field

A series of deals indicates that incumbent vendors like Nokia still have an important, and potentially unavoidable, role to play in modern network architecture. Read more.

NetFoundry CEO: The Edge Is ‘Not a Walk in the Park’

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

Stateless Taps Intel’s Barefoot Tofino for Interconnection

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

Docker Refocus Targets DevOps Challenges

The vendor has a unique opportunity to help make the code to cloud space incredibly efficient, simple, cost effective, according to Docker Inc.'s Justin Graham. Read more.