Happy Friday, and welcome to the SDxCentral news roundup! Here's the week's top news surrounding SDN, NFV, and more:

Apple is building its own content delivery network to support its streaming music service, according to a report in Bloomberg.

ClearPath Networks hired Marc Cohn — former Ciena employee and longtime SDxCentral contributor — as senior vice president of marketing.

Router and switch spending will flatten as carriers take the plunge into NFV and packet-optical technologies, according to research firm Infonetics (now an arm of IHS). The compound annual growth rate for routers and switches will be held to 2.1 percent from 2014 to 2019, according to analyst Michael Howard. Meanwhile, virtual router revenues will see 125 percent growth between 2015 and 2016, Howard predicted.

Mesosphere announced general availability of its Data Center Operating System (DCOS) Enterprise Edition. The company also made DCOS available for free on Amazon Web Services.

Plexxi launched a partnership with CloudGov Technologies, hoping for a foot in the door with government networks.

SD-WAN startup Viptela announced a win with SingTel and struck distributorship deals in Japan.

SolarWinds trotted out security enhancements to its Network Configuration Manager.

Data security firm Rapid7 filed for an IPO this week. The Boston-based startup, which is backed by venture firms Technology Crossover Partners and Bain Capital Partners, seeks to raise $80 million in the offering slated for later this year.

Cavium added two midrange families to its Octeon III series of multicore chips. The CN73xx and CN72xx lines sport 4 to 16 cores apiece.

A10 Networks added to its Thunder line of application delivery controllers (ADCs) and created the Threat Intelligence Service with the help of software vendor ThreatSTOP.

Telco Systems updated the EdgeGenie Orchestrator to support OpenDaylight Helium and the OpenStack NFV controller.

An SDN proof-of-concept by OpenFlow startup NoviFlow got approved by Canada's Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) consortium. Canadian telecom giant Telus is sponsoring the project.

Here’s what else SDxCentral covered lately: