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Nokia Warns Traffic May Spike Again Amid COVID-19 Surge

Nokia warns that network traffic may spike again, especially as COVID-19 infections surge and public health restrictions are being re-instituted in many regions. Read more.

Cato Claims Unicorn Status in Wake of $130M Funding Round

The company's largest funding round to date helped to push the SASE pioneer into unicorn territory. Read more.

EdgeQ Snags $51M in Funding for 5G, AI Modem

The company is developing 5G modems for industrial IoT with integrated artificial intelligence capabilities. Read more.

Tanium Teams Up With IBM Cloud, Adds Risk Scoring

The partnership caps a busy year for the startup, which raised $167.2 million this year alone in two funding rounds that sent its valuation soaring above $9 billion. Read more.

Snowflake Shovels On Platform Updates, Ushers In Data Cloud

Data Cloud aims to free data from silos and bunkers so that users can drive far greater faster insights to act on, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman said. Read more.

AT&T Pulls Cisco Into IP Edge Routing Deployment

AT&T said its ability to use the same open hardware for core and edge routing demonstrates the power of open source systems. Read more.

VMware Pops Project Antrea Into Its Container Networking

The commercial product works with VMware’s NSX-T platform to support container connectivity for Kubernetes clusters in a software-defined data center. Read more.

Ekinops SD-WAN Appliance Addresses WFH

The appliance effectively turns an employee's home into a branch office, creating a secure VPN tunnel to the nearest corporate office or data center. Read more.