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

Juniper Preps an SDN Professional Services Engine - Juniper's CEO calls Contrail the company's "secret weapon" to help telcos.

Cisco Claims It’s Fending Off White Boxes - Cisco reveals that its switching represents more than half of its sales to a webscale group.

It’s Surprising Who’s Using NFV MANO Code From Cloudify - GigaSpaces' open source Cloudify project is being used by some familiar names.

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

Telefonica and Brocade completed performance benchmark testing for a virtual evolved packet core (vEPC) implementation within the Telefonica NFV Reference Lab framework.

The self-organizing network (SON) provider Cellwize acquired CrowdX, a provider of crowdsourcing data from mobile devices, including data points such as indoor/outdoor, Wi-Fi handover and roamer experience.

A series of enhancements to SevOne's Digital Infrastructure Management Platform include support for Cisco ACI, VMware vCenter, Viptela SD-WAN, Cisco Intelligent-WAN, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud.

Corsa's DP2000 data plane appliance, announced last week, is being used by Géant, the pan-European research networking consortium.

Apprenda announced it acquired Kismatic, a startup developing Kubernetes for the enterprise. (Kubernetes is an open source project devoted to container orchestration.) As a result, Apprenda also announced it's offering a commercial distribution of Kubernetes.

TELoIP received a U.S. patent for a function in its SD-WAN technology that provides improved performance of aggregated/bonded network connections between remote sites.

StrataCloud released StrataCloud SDI Install, a software application that automates the configuration of converged infrastructure (CI) systems for value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators.

Riverbed added several enhancements to SteelCentral, its application performance monitoring. They include monitoring for Microsoft Azure, AWS, containers, and platforms-as-a-service (PaaS).

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Will Brocade’s Acquisition of Ruckus Be Its Savior?
  • Tigera Plans to Solve the Container Networking Challenge
  • Verizon Exec Says 5G Will Be an Overlay to LTE
  • Amdocs Builds an NFV Orchestrator
  • Kubernetes Startup Gets Acquired by PaaS Startup
  • Russia’s MTS Teams With Nokia & Ericsson to Test 5G in 2018
  • Aqua Dives Into Container Security
  • With $20B Debt Offering, Dell-EMC Nears Closure
  • F5’s Latest Updates Give a Nod to Developers
  • Cisco Revises Its Network Administrator Certification
  • Wholesale Voice Carriers Examine NFV
  • ONUG Hopes to Nudge Networks Toward Real Interoperability