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

AT&T ICEs Vendors of Virtual Network Functions — Vendors must use ICE to introduce and certify their VNFs for AT&T’s network.

Sprint to Demonstrate Nokia's 4.9G Tech at Mobile World Congress — Sprint will be using 3-D beamforming software coupled with Nokia’s AirScale MIMO adaptive antenna.

9 Security Startups Worth Watching in 2017 — Legacy security products are not keeping up, and that's creating a lot of opportunity for nimble startups.

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

AT&T and Broadcom are working together on a program to drive innovation in network hardware, such as switching, routing, broadband access, and customer premises equipment.

Ruckus Wireless announced new integrations between its Cloudpath software and products from other network security vendors.

Cablenet Communications Systems will use Oracle Communications to modernize its IMS network.

vArmour will collaborate with Telstra to secure containerized application delivery and deployments for hybrid cloud and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments.

Ingenu is teaming with Microsoft to use its Azure IoT Hub for the deployment of end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) systems based on Ingenu’s Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) network technology.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced HPE SecureData for Hadoop and IoT, which is designed to secure sensitive information transmitted across IoT environments.

Telefónica, Huawei, and Kamstrup have deployed their first project using real user data via narrowband IoT technology (NB-IoT).

At Mobile World Congress 2017, Rift.io will feature use case demonstrations that show how mobile operators can speed up their transformation to virtualized network services through network functions virtualization (NFV).

PlanetOne Communications joined Aryaka’s Partner Program to deliver Aryaka’s global software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) system to enterprises.

Sedona Systems' NetFusion platform served as a multidomain controller in the Optical Internetworking Forum’s (OIF) Transport API interoperability demonstration.

Huawei and Avira signed a Memorandum of Understanding and announced a partnership to deliver cloud-based zero-day and malware protection.

Riverbed Technology announced updates to its SD-WAN offering Riverbed SteelConnect.

Oracle expanded its cloud platform’s data integration offerings with the launch of Oracle Data Integrator Cloud.

Avaya announced Avaya Surge to helps companies mitigate attacks that can occur through connected IoT devices.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: