Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, cloud, and virtualization infrastructure:

VMware & Brocade Build an Aviation Network for SmartSky — SmartSky is deploying Brocade’s virtual evolved packet core (vEPC), running on VMware’s vCloud NFV.

Cultural Shifts: Telcos Insist Employees Adapt for SDN — Verizon says its program to retrain employees for SDN is 'neck and neck' with AT&T's retraining program.

Juniper Networks Warns of 1Q Revenue Slip — It lowered its previous guidance for its Q1 earnings.

Analysis: Inside Huawei’s Open Source Buffet — SDxCentral's in-house analyst Scott Raynovich got a picture of Huawei from inside China this week.

Weaveworks Keeps Its Docker Options Open — Networking startup Weaveworks will support the version of Container Network Interface (CNI) that’s included in Kubernetes 1.2.

And here are the week’s strays and stragglers we roped for you:

PLUMgrid signed a reseller agreement with NocSys, which provides cloud software for enterprises and service providers in China. NocSys will resell PLUMgrid's full SDN portfolio.

The ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) elected Francisco-Javier Ramón Salguero of Telefonica as chairman of the group, and also elected Pål Gronsund of Telenor and Andy Reid of BT as vice chairs. Within two months, OSM will launch its Release 0, integrating the code base from Telefonica, RIFT.io, and Canonical.

6WIND and Kalray created a partnership that combines Kalray's NICs with 6WIND's packet processing software to enable high throughput applications in data center networking.

KDU University College in Malaysia deployed networking from Brocade. The network is designed for cloud service access, whether from the university’s private cloud data center or public cloud service providers.

CFN Services integrated Viptela's software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology within its AppHUB global application delivery platform, which spans 185 markets in 41 countries.

Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding with Netscout to allow Netscout's platform to access Huawei operation support systems (OSS) interfaces. Huawei has previously signed MOUs with several independent service vendors within the OSS field.

Communications Data Group (CDG), which does billing for service providers, joined the MEF.

Windstream deployed Infinera's Cloud Xpress to provide high-speed connections between data centers in Chicago. Windstream says it selected Infinera and several other technology partners to employ SDN for creation and management of optical services across its metro and long-haul transport network in 2016.

Nokia and Türk Telekom signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop 5G applications that will drive the Internet of Things (IoT). Türk Telekom will make its network infrastructure available to Nokia for real-time testing to accelerate the introduction of 5G in Turkey.

Vapor IO joined the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: