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

Report Ranks SD-WAN Leaders Based on Q2 Revenues — The overall SD-WAN market increased 33 percent since first quarter 2017.

Cloud Provider OVH Takes on AWS, Azure and Google in the US — OVH has 1.2 million customers worldwide.

Comcast Business Rolls Out an SDN Platform Named ActiveCore — SD-WAN is the first service offered on the platform.

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

The GSMA reported that more than 21,000 visitors from 110 countries and territories attended the 2017 Mobile World Congress Americas, held September 12 through 14 in San Francisco.

Packet partnered with Arm to support the ecosystem for the Arm v8-compatible architecture.

Intel Labs contributed its Xeon processor, based on the virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) reference software, to the CORD project, Business Insider reported.

The Telecom Infra Project launched the Millimeter Wave (mmWave) Networks Project Group, co-chaired by Deutsche Telekom and Facebook, to address the growing demand for bandwidth in highly-populated cities.

Ericsson and KDDI agreed to test a 5G proof of concept on the 4.5GHz frequency band in a number of cities across Japan.

Security company Armis discovered a set of Bluetooth-related vulnerabilities dubbed “BlueBorne,” affecting billions of devices.

Wipro Limited joined Hyperledger to design and develop open source-based blockchain solutions for enterprise deployments.

Performance monitoring company SolarWinds released its network insight solution for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances.

Anchore introduced a new open source project that allows users to install a local copy of its container analysis and policy engine.

Photonix's universal customer premise equipment (uCPE) and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology were included in the Amdocs NFV ecosystem powered by ONAP.

Nokia and Telefónica signed an agreement to evaluate technologies enabling a network evolution to 5G that is in line with Telefónica's business objectives.

Samsung Electronics America and Charter Communications are collaborating on 5G and 4G LTE wireless networks lab and field trials at various locations in the U.S.

Sprint and Ericsson unveiled results of the first U.S. 2.5 GHz multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) field tests conducted in Seattle, Washington, and Plano, Texas, using Sprint’s spectrum and Ericsson’s radios.

BDNA partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a solution that provides discovery and normalization for commercial software assets deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

The Institute for Information Industry, an IT applications provider in Taiwan, joined the OPNFV project.

VMware unveiled new innovations to help its cloud partners migrate VMware workloads and expand service offerings through VMware's Cloud Provider program.

CloudOps created CloudMC, an on-premises subscription software that provides a self-service portal for cloud service orchestrator management and provisioning.

Portnox released the latest version of its Clear cloud-based network access control solution.

BMC released a multicloud solution with new asset discovery capabilities to provide better visibility into multicloud environments.

Samsung Electronics joined the open source Internet of Things (IoT) EdgeX Foundry project as a Platinum member.

Software AG launched an extended Cumulocity IoT technology portfolio.

JMA Wireless unveiled new technologies for its distributed antenna system platform.

Megaport Singapore and NTT Singapore launched NexConnect Cloud Service to provide Singapore-based enterprises access to on-demand connections to multicloud solutions, according to Business Insider.

AT&T completed testing a single-wavelength at 400 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) data speed across its production network.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • Heptio Gains $25M in Pursuit of Expanding Beyond Kubernetes
  • Versa Breaks Into the Chinese Market with China Telecom Win
  • Telefónica, Palo Alto Networks Launch Cloud-Based Security Software
  • Verizon Sees 5G Network, Ecosystem Unleashed by Virtualization
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Encrypts In-Use Data
  • VMware Releases Telco-Oriented Version of its OpenStack Distribution
  • Cisco's David Goeckeler Talks Network Security at Deutsche Bank
  • Extreme Networks Launches Automated Campus with Avaya Assets
  • 5G to be Like a Well-Tuned Orchestra, Thanks to Software
  • Cisco Tasks Market with Fast Adoption of Software, Digitization
  • Dell EMC Rack Scale Infrastructure Targets Service Providers' SDDCs
  • VeloCloud Partner Program Aims to Onboard Service Providers ASAP
  • Oracle Bets Big on Kubernetes, Joins CNCF as Platinum Member
  • Ericsson Makes Hueveldop's North America Post Permanent
  • Veriflow Brings Intent-Based Networking Verification to the Cloud
  • Sprint Touts 5G Hardware Progress, Knows Software Remains Key
  • Amdocs Brings an NFV Software Package Based on ONAP
  • Domo BYOK Generates New Data Encryption Keys Every Hour
  • VMware-IBM Cloud Covers Vodafone, Dell EMC, and SAP
  • Silver Peak Updates EdgeConnect to Increase Availability
  • IBM LinuxONE Gains Proprietary Container Focus
  • CA Brings Additional Visibility to Versa's Cloud IP Platform
  • Open Container Initiative Marks Success, Looks for What's Next
  • Rackspace Buys Cloud Managed Services Provider Datapipe
  • Dell Triggers Cloud and Container Storage Interoperability
  • Carriers' 5G Plans are Rooted in SDN/NFV, Says Ixia Survey
  • CNCF Looks to Bridge Gap in Kubernetes Skills and Support
  • Will VMware-AWS Deal Rain on IBM Cloud Partnership
  • Intel 5G Trial Platform to Support Still Undefined Standard