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

Cisco Throws Yet Another Punch at Arista — At Cisco's request, the U.S. Customs agency revoked its own prior ruling in favor of Arista.

Longshot Arris-Brocade Theory Still Lives —Reuters reports that the deal could be worth as much as $1 billion.

Barefoot Networks Steps Into the White Box Market — The switches will give Barefoot its first footing in this increasingly competitive market.

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

CA Technologies has completed the acquisition of Automic Holding GmbH, a business process and IT automation software company.

Ericsson and Telstra have demonstrated the ability to encrypt data securely while in transit between Los Angeles and Melbourne at 10Gbps, using Ciena's encryption system.

Wind River and Mirantis recently completed a joint proof of concept interoperability project at Wind River’s network functions virtualization (NFV) lab in Santa Clara, California.

China Mobile will use Brocade's Virtual Traffic Manager in certain data centers to deliver cloud services.

The U.S. Army has signed a five-year, multimillion dollar contract with IBM to build, manage, and operate a cloud system.

Singapore's M1 Limited (M1) and Huawei conducted a 5G trial and achieved  network speeds of 35 Gb/s.

Netherlands-based Huisman will use Masergy's hybrid WAN system and software-defined platform to connect its global locations.

California Telecom partnered with TELoIP to deliver fully-managed software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) systems for business customers in southern California and beyond.

The Mont-Blanc European project selected Cavium's ThunderX2 ARM server processor to power its new High Performance Computing (HPC) prototype.

Cisco announced a new data and analytics training program for data center certification.

PacketFabric, a provider of Ethernet-based cloud networking services, has selected Juniper Networks as its packet-switched network infrastructure provider.

OPĀQ Networks, a post-revenue network security-as-a-service company, was formed with $21 million in Series A funding led by Columbia Capital, Harmony Partners, and Zero-G Inc.

Asia Pacific Telecom has launched the Cisco Jasper Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity management platform.

Litmus Automation, an IoT platform provider, announced a partnership program for companies and organizations interested in using Litmus’ IoT platform.

Verizon is rumored to be considering a purchase of a cable company, possible Comcast or Charter, according to the New York Post.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Oracle Buys Apiary for Its API Integration Cloud
  • Avaya Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
  • CenturyLink Moves Into Big Data With Cloudera Platform
  • VeloCloud Powers New Windstream SD-WAN Managed Service
  • Check Point Climbs on Strong Q4 Results
  • Cumulus Offers Turn-Key Hardware/Software on EdgeCore Switch
  • Red Hat Makes Container Storage a Little More Dynamic
  • SevOne Integrates Its Analytics with Google Cloud
  • 5G Auto Group Backs C-V2X Technology, Preps for Trials
  • Gigamon Stock Down On Poor Earnings Pre-Announcement
  • BlueData Attributes Surge in Sales to Docker Containers and Cloud Computing
  • Public Cloud on the Rise While Private Cloud Usage Declines
  • HPE to Acquire Hyperconverged Player SimpliVity for $650M
  • The Open Baton MANO Group Pre-Dates OSM and Open-O
  • Oracle Barnstorms NYC to Reassert Its Cloud Message
  • Walmart Gets a New CIO as It Shifts to E-Commerce
  • Qualcomm Report Touts 5G as a Trillion-Dollar Opportunity and Job Creator
  • Deep Learning Startup Neurala Raises $14M
  • Baidu Hires Former Microsoft AI Specialist Qi Lu
  • Ekholm Takes the Helm of Ericsson, Frykhammer Will Serve as an Advisor
  • Microsoft to Acquire Deep Learning Startup Maluuba
  • Mellanox's Infiniband Switches Give Machine Learning a Boost