Highlights of SDxCentral's coverage in the last month included Huawei's Analyst Conference, NFV World Congress, and OpenStack Summit.

Follow those links to get to our coverage — and check out our top articles of April 2016, covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the last four weeks. Enjoy.

10. SD-WAN Market to Grow 90% in 5 Years

Forget the analyst hand-waving. Customers like immediate benefits. Read more.

9. AT&T Is Giving the P4 Language a Whirl

A mere 78 lines of code that even a manager can understand. Read more.

8. As Promised, Nokia Begins the Layoff Process

1,300 jobs in Finland are on the block. Read more.

7. CloudRouter Achieves 650 Gb/s & Expands Into SDN

It used a Mellanox NIC for the throughput. Read more.

6. 4 Reasons a Telco Cloud Is Hard to Build

A telco VNF isn't just another virtualized function. Read more.

5. AT&T Explains Its Ecomp Master Service Orchestrator

It uses an OpenStack Heat template. Read more.

4. Google Uses vEPC to Deliver WiFi to Train Stations in India

Users are flocking to the service. Read more.

3. VMware & Brocade Build an Aviation Network for SmartSky

SmartSky wants to avoid hardware as much as possible. Read more.

2. OpenStack Mitaka: Telco NFV, ‘Intent,’ & Neutron

Neutron has merely gotten a bad rap, OpenStack officials say. Read more.

1. Verizon Publishes an SDN/NFV Reference Architecture

It worked with Cisco, Ericsson, HPE, Intel, and others. Read more.