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

Barefoot Networks' McKeown: On OpenFlow, P4 & the Programmable Network —  It's the “write once, run many” principle.

CenturyLink Offers SD-WAN with Versa Networks Technology — It doesn’t think it will cannibalize its MPLS revenues.

15 Million AT&T Wireless Customers Run on Virtualized Core — AT&T is starting to see benefits from Domain 2.0.

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

BISDN released Basebox, a modular software that integrates whitebox switches into OpenStack.

Procera Networks revealed its ContentLogic traffic identification software to help network operators combat the challenges faced by encryption.

IBM released the next generation of IBM MobileFirst Foundation, which is now available on the IBM Cloud to enhance enterprise mobile application development.

Orange, with the support of Telia and AT&T, initiated the TransportPCE project within OpenDaylight, which marks the first software development collaboration led exclusively by a group of end users.

NEC Corporation completed its first pre-commercial trial for for virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE) for residential users in the network of Telefonica's Brazilian affiliate VIVO.

Big Switch Networks updated its SDN-based Big Monitoring Fabric and Big Cloud Fabric systems.

Western Digital, a storage technology company, announced an all-flash storage system with HPE ProLiant DL Rack Servers and VMware Virtual SAN running SQL Server 2016 workloads.

6WIND upgraded its OpenStack network functions virtualization (NFV) Test Drive platform on Advantech servers, comprising 40 GE wire speed connectivity on Ubuntu OpenStack compute nodes.

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