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

Comcast Business Chooses Versa Networks for SD-WAN — MPLS won’t be a factor in Comcast’s SD-WAN play.

Cisco to Lay Off 1,100 Employees by November 2017 — And the company expects revenue declines of 4 to 6 percent next quarter.

AT&T Sees Its SDN and NFV Investments Beginning to Self-Fund — AT&T expects to have 75 percent of its network operations controlled by virtualized platforms by 2020.

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

Orange entered into negotiations to acquire a controlling stake of systems integration group Business & Decision.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced what it claims is the world’s largest single-memory computer, the latest milestone in The Machine research project.

Bombardier extended its partnership with IBM through a new six-year deal valued at approximately $700 million, which includes IBM Services and IBM Cloud management on Bombardier’s infrastructure.

Ericsson collaborated with Microsoft to help enterprises speed up the time it takes to launch mobile network-based Internet of Things (IoT) services.

Celcom Axiata Berhad and Ericsson claimed to perform Malaysia's first ever 5G trial, which was conducted on the 28GHz band.

Red Hat opened one of its innovation labs in London.

Rancher Labs partnered with Docker to integrate Docker Enterprise Edition Basic into its container management platform.

Avaya extended the hyper-segmentation capabilities of its fabric networking to OpenStack.

Coloclue will deploy Juniper Networks vMX Virtual Router to build out its production network.

Lanner joined Ciena’s Blue Orbit Ecosystem for interoperable software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) orchestrations.

Interoute said it will offer SDN carrier services, including instant software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) capabilities that allow organizations to manage applications and data locally.

Silver Spring Networks extended its IoT developer program.

Samsung Electronics released new Samsung Artik Smart IoT platform products.

Sierra Wireless said it now supports Google Cloud IoT Core, a managed service that allows users to securely connect and manage devices at global scale.

Redknee Solutions launched a Catalyst project with Wipro, Verizon, and Infosim at TM Forum in Nice, France.

WiFi provider Relay2 signed a distribution agreement with Fujitsu Network Solutions Limited.

Arrow Electronics announced it will offer Vimoc's Rosella artificial intelligence computing platform for applications ranging from smart factories to smart buildings.

NEC and Netcracker participated in the 5G Service Operations: Closed Loop Assurance of 5G Network Slices Catalyst project at TM Forum Live! in Nice, France.

Network testing company EXFO launched its Universal Virtual Sync, enabling providers to measure network latency.

Array Networks released its new AVX Series Network Functions Platform at Interop ITX.

Nokia unveiled new machine learning capabilities to help service providers strengthen the digital customer experience.

Telco Systems and Advantech partnered to provide an open vCPE product enabling virtual network function (VNF) services on cost-optimized hardware.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Q&A: AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch Links Software Migration to 5G
  • Oracle Cloud Security Services Pass the 1-Million-Customers Mark
  • AT&T Rolls Out LTE-M Internet of Things Network Nationwide
  • Apache Foundation Suffers Money Problems, Organizational Headaches
  • SK Telecom Calls for Open Source Project Consolidation
  • Google's Plan to Make GCP 'The Best Cloud for Machine Learning'
  • AT&T's Donovan: Open Source is Necessary to Win the War
  • Sprint Launches VeloCloud SD-WAN Services
  • AT&T Sees Its SDN and NFV Investments Beginning to Self-Fund
  • SAP Cloud Runs on Google, Microsoft, and AWS Public Clouds via Cloud Foundry
  • Why PTC Migrated Its Servers to AWS Using CloudVelox Software
  • AT&T's 5G Plans Include Context-Aware Networking
  • Sprint to Launch LTE Cat 1 Internet of Things Network by Mid-Year
  • IBM-Nutanix Hyperconverged System Targets Enterprise AI Workloads
  • PCCW Global Builds a Distributed Cloud with Canonical and CPlane
  • Google Cloud Creates an IoT Service for Enterprises
  • CoreOS Adds Mozilla Co-Founder Mitchell Baker to its Board
  • NEC Partners with Dell EMC to Deliver SD-LAN
  • TM Forum Tools Targets Slow Digital Adoption by Operators
  • Verizon Taps ADVA's Ensemble NFV Technology for White Box uCPE
  • VMware Acquires Mobile Analytics Startup Apteligent
  • CA Technologies Monitors SD-WAN Built on Cisco IWAN and Viptela
  • Apple Takes a Deep Dive in AI with Lattice Acquisition
  • Puppet Looks to Provide Clarity and Broader Access to Containers
  • Console's Automated Cloud-to-Cloud Connection Bypasses Public Internet
  • Verizon 5G Trial a Collaborative NFV Effort for Cisco & Samsung
  • Microsoft Guns for Oracle Customers with Database Migration Service
  • Slinking Into a Session Entitled 'What is OpenStack?'