Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, 5G, IoT, cloud, and more:

How Customers Use VMware's NSX (Hint: It's Not Just a Security Use Case)  — Nike used VMware Integrated OpenStack in conjunction with NSX to deploy applications in minutes.

AT&T Invests Up to $200M in ONAP-Focused Venture Capital Fund — Some view ONAP as "horrendously complex" to implement.

FTC Worries that Broadcom's Purchase of Brocade Creates a Fibre Channel Switch Monopoly — The FTC doesn’t want the deal to quash competition with Cisco.

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

AT&T completed its previously announced acquisition of the Vyatta network operating system and associated assets of Brocade Communications. The deal also included the hiring of several dozen Brocade employees who are mostly located in California and the U.K.

China Telecom and Ericsson launched the China Telecom Internet of Things (IoT) Open Platform to help accelerate the deployment of IoT services.

Software testing company QualiTest Group acquired Experior Group, a SAP-certified partner in the U.K. focused on software testing.

Equinix now provides access to Oracle Cloud in its Sydney, Australia International Business Exchange data center.

Mellanox released its open Ethernet switch product, which is designed to achieve better data center scalability.

ZTE extended its collaboration with Ncell Axiata, which will leverage ZTE’s network virtualization technologies to develop a virtual subscriber data management (vSDM) platform.

China Mobile Beijing and Huawei launched a pilot project for a smart stadium at Beijing South Railway Station based on multi-access edge computing (MEC).

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