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

10 IoT Platforms Changing How Companies Do Business — When it comes to picking an IoT platform, it's like the Wild West.

Cisco Creates a Universal Software Licensing Agreement Across Products — The new agreement operates as a sales tool that incentivizes customers to buy “bundles” of software products.

The Tables Have Turned: Ericsson Picks Verizon for SD-WAN — Ericsson played a role in helping Verizon set up its managed SD-WAN service.

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

Verizon offered to acquire cable giant Charter Communications in a deal valued over $100 billion, but Charter declined because the price was too low, the New York Post reported.

Toyota said the infotainment system of its revamped Camry sedan will run on a Linux-based, open-source technology platform.

Hedvig bundled a product with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), combining its software-defined storage with HPE Apollo 4200 servers.

Happiest Minds Technologies acquired OSSCube, a U.S.-based digital transformation company.

Enea revealed its network functions virtualization (NFV) access platform that it said is designed for customer premises deployment at the network edge.

Ocado Technology released Kubermesh, an open source software package designed to simplify data center architectures for smart factories.

Coriant expanded its software suite with the introduction of the Transcend Hierarchical Controller that orchestrates multilayer, multidomain, and multivendor transport networks.

Silver Peak partnered with Hyundai HCN Co. to deliver a new managed software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) service to customers in South Korea.

Cisco and IBM are working together to address the growing threat of cybercrime.

ZTE and Banglalink migrated 60 million legacy users to a virtual subscriber data management (vSDM) platform in Bangladesh.

Lancom Systems expanded its VPN portfolio with a software-based router for operation in virtualized server environments.

Huawei released the CloudFAN prototype for cable operators and demonstrated service provisioning capabilities based on the cloud with cooperation between open protocols and network controllers.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • HPE Shares Drop on Double-Digit Server Revenue Declines
  • Portnox Updates Security Platform to Include Subscription Plan Management
  • Pulse Secure Snaps Up Brocade's vADC Assets
  • Businesses Rethinking Security Software Strategy, Gartner Says
  • CoreOS Brings Kubernetes-as-a-Service to Enterprise
  • Routing Startup 128 Technology Raises $21.5M in Series C
  • ThousandEyes Extends IPv6 Monitoring Capabilities
  • SD-WAN Deployments to Increase, MPLS Not Going Anywhere, Report Says
  • HPE, GE Join LinkedIn's Open19 Open Source Data Center Project
  • Cisco Remote PHY Moves Cable Networks Closer to Virtualization
  • Ericsson Veteran Ekudden Promoted to Group CTO
  • Virtuozzo Updates Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software Stack
  • AT&T Exec Says Containers Are Key to Network Architecture