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The company is moving the event to an all-digital experience, and there will not be any keynotes or sessions open to an audience. Read more.

The open RAN framework is 40% cheaper than traditional telecommunication infrastructure, according to CTO Tareq Amin. Read more.

“This is Equinix being extremely self-aware,” Packet CEO Zach Smith said, using an “Of Mice and Men” analogy. “Lennie doesn’t kill the rabbit.” Read more.

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

The low-code vendor is Apple's only direct software play in the B2B space. Read more.

"We found out with the acquisitions of Interoute and Hibernia that the development of capital-intensive infrastructure is not our real forté," said GTT Founder Brian Thompson. Read more.

Nokia Software CTO Ron Haberman likened the potential business models for mobile edge computing to those pursued by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Read more.

Security professionals tend to be at least a moderately paranoid bunch, and adding a real virus to the usual digital viruses at RSA definitely upped the paranoia this year. Read more.

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%. Read more.