Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, 5G, IoT, cloud, and more:
Cisco Buys SD-WAN Vendor Viptela for $610M — The deal will give Cisco a pure-play SD-WAN offering.
Verizon Open Source White Box 'Coming Soon,' VP Says — Expect an ‘Android’ model, as opposed to AT&T’s ‘Apple' model.
Viptela Acquisition Enforces Cisco's Move to Software — Viptela was the SD-WAN market leader in 2016, analyst says.
Here are the week’s strays and stragglers we roped for you:
Cisco intends to acquire an advanced analytics team and intellectual property from a privately-held technology services company, Saggezza.
Riverbed is using its SD-WAN solution SteelConnect to connect its team members and the global biopharmaceutical community to its Orion cloud-based drug discovery platform.
Canonical and NetApp collaborated to supply open cloud solutions based on Ubuntu OpenStack and NetApp Storage.
Netscout entered a multiyear agreement with Vodafone Group to serve as its passive probing provider in Europe.
Nutanix's Enterprise Cloud Platform software will be available as a term-based license for deployment on HPE ProLiant rackmount servers and Cisco UCS B-series blade servers.
CenturyLink completed the previously announced sale of its data centers and colocation business to a consortium including Medina Capital Advisors and Longview Asset Management.
Equinix completed its acquisition of 29 data centers and their operations from Verizon .
AppViewX now includes support for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) v2.0, HA Proxy v1.5, NGINX Plus R11, and F5 BIG-IQ v5.1 in the AppViewX Platform.
Cloudify launched open virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) services targeted for carriers and vendors that are looking for a framework to build their own custom vCPE solution.
The Broadband Forum and SDN/NFV Industry Alliance signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly set up an open broadband lab in Asia.
At Red Hat Summit 2017, Lenovo released a new version of its open source platform, Open Platform @ Lenovo, and the opening of an advanced cloud technology center.
Big Switch Networks received Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Prime designation.
ZTE Corporation is implementing mobile edge computing (MEC) pilots and technical verification with China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom.
Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:
- CenturyLink Latest to Claim Virtualization Cost Benefits
- Verizon and AT&T Exits From Cloud Business Applauded by Analysts
- Google's RailTel Project Uses Cloud-Native NFV to Deliver WiFi to Millions
- Extreme Expects 10,000 New Enterprise Customers From Its Acquisitions
- Verizon Open Source White Box 'Coming Soon,' VP Says
- Oracle to Migrate AT&T Databases to Cloud Platform
- Red Hat Picks SevOne for Service Assurance
- Straight Path Enjoys Bidding War That Now Values it at $2.3B
- Sprint Cites Software as Part of 2016 Capex Savings
- BT Eyes Federated Network Slicing for Roaming
- Vodafone Taps Mirantis for Managed Open Cloud Services
- Dell EMC Launches Hybrid Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure Stack
- Red Hat Integrates AWS into OpenShift Container Platform
- Datadog Adds to its List of Azure Integrations
- Apstra Updates Intent-Based OS
- China Mobile Tests VNFs With Enea's Software
- Docker Names New CEO as it Looks to Bolster Container Market
- T-Mobile Targets 2019 for First 5G Markets, Nationwide in 2020
- MEF Launches Certification Program Targeting LSO, SDN, NFV
- Mavenir's Transformation from VoLTE Vendor to xRAN Upstart
- Fastly Puts its Edge Cloud Platform Close to Big Brands
- Telco Systems and Silver Peak Offer vCPE for SD-WAN
- Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform Shrinks Data Center Footprint
- Aparna Systems 'Cloud-in-a-Box' Targets Edge Computing
- WiFi Pairs Well with SD-WAN, But It's Not Essential
- Cloudera Shares Jump 20% on IPO
- Google CEO Talks AI and Cloud on Q1 2017 Earnings Call
- Microsoft Azure Sales Jump 93% in Quarter
- Fortinet Reports Another Impressive Quarter
- Amazon Dominates the Cloud as AWS Revenue Soars in Q1
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