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

5G Trials and Tribulations: A Guide to Global 5G Operator Tests — Many operators are conducting technology trials in hope that the results will contribute to the 5G standard.

AWS Offers Its Artificial Intelligence Expertise to Developers — Andy Jassy, AWS CEO, introduced three new AI and machine learning services to help developers create apps based on images, text, and audio.

Comcast Becomes the First Cable Company to Join ONOS & CORD — This marks the first entrance of a cable company in these open source projects.

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

Former Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson was named the next CEO of Starbucks, effective April 3.

American Airlines picked IBM as its public-cloud provider.

Fugue released the free version of its flagship cloud orchestration product.

Cisco Jasper announced a new partnership with Olivetti to deliver Internet of Things (IoT) services to businesses in Italy.

Tata Communications added software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) to its IZO cloud enablement platform.

The Broadband Forum announced the first steps have been taken to form a service-provider committee to study how connectivity and virtualization are bought and sold by service providers worldwide.

Mirantis launched a vendor-agnostic Kubernetes and Docker certification, giving enterprises a way to identify container skills in the cloud market.

Cloudistics, a cloud computing company, announced a partnership with Pica8 to extend the Cloudistics virtual networking capabilities to include OpenFlow and SDN.

AppViewX launched Partner+, the company’s new channel partner program.

Iguazio is collaborating with Equinix to power the Equinix Data Hub, to help with IoT and enterprise applications.

Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), South African provider of open-access fiber infrastructure, is deploying Ciena’s Blue Planet orchestration software to automate the delivery of Ethernet services.

Docker and Canonical released an integrated, commercially supported version of Docker Engine on Ubuntu.

ScaleArc, a provider of database load balancing software, has made its software compatible with Amazon Aurora.

Nokia and the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have entered into a strategic collaboration to drive the development of an end-to-end UAS ecosystem.

Accedian has joined the Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project (TIP).

Radcom has joined the Open Source Management and Orchestration (OSM) community.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Containers & Serverless Functions Have Their Day on AWS
  • Juniper to Acquire Cloud Operations Startup AppFormix
  • Trend Micro Offers Deep Security Service on AWS Marketplace
  • ADVA Optical Networking Jumps into the SD-WAN Fray
  • InfoVista Preps Planning Software for 5G and IoT
  • HPE Amps Up IoT Offering, Expands Nokia Partnership
  • HPE Selling OpenStack & CloudFoundry Assets to SUSE
  • Headcount: The Latest in Hirings, Firings And Retirings for November 2016
  • AWS Is Installing a New Trans-Pacific Cable
  • Intel Recruits an ARM Exec to Run IoT
  • Nutanix's First-Ever Earnings Report Bears No Surprises
  • ABI Research Names Top Vendors for Virtual Evolved Packet Core
  • HPE Discover Spotlights 'The Machine,' Synergy & Azure
  • FireEye's Helix Platform Automates Security
  • Non-Cellular Low-Power Networks Will Dominate IoT Connections, Report says
  • A10 Makes a 'Cloud-Native' Application Delivery Controller
  • Kontena Goes '1.0' With Its Kubernetes Alternative for Containers
  • Huawei Wants to Reinvent the Air Interface With CloudAir
  • A Shipping Company CIO Oversees a Migration to the AWS Cloud
  • AWS Picks MXNet as Its Favored Deep Learning Framework
  • Riverbed & Verizon Team Up to Deliver an AWS Bundle
  • Ericsson Offers its NFVi Platform in Modular Components
  • WiFi Competitors Attack as Ruckus Waits in Limbo