Check out our top 10 articles for December 2020 covering the SDxCentral universe of SDN, NFV, and related topics. Rankings are based on unique visitors aggregated during the month.

10. Huawei Dominates Nokia, Ericsson, Dell’Oro Says

“The overall telecom equipment market continued to appear disconnected from the underlying economy,” Dell’Oro Group VP Stefan Pongratz wrote. Read more.

9. Cisco Cuts 3,500 Jobs Since Start of COVID-19

“To me, it’s just silly for those of us who have the financial wherewithal to absorb this, for us to add to the problem,” CEO Chuck Robbins said in a pledge to not cut any jobs because of the pandemic. Read more.

8. Amazon Detonates Sonic Boom of Storage Updates

During his opening keynote at AWS re:Invent, CEO Andy Jassy announced four additions to AWS’ storage services that could easily be mistaken for a family of Star Wars droids. Read more.

7. Zscaler CEO: Network Security Is Dead. Long Live SASE

“Network security is not really very meaningful,” CEO Jay Chaudhry said. “We decouple network access and application access with zero trust.” Read more.

6. Cisco’s SVP of Security Jumps Ship for Google Anthos

Jeff Reed's move to Google comes after nearly a decade at Cisco. Read more.

5. Nokia Confirms C-Suite Exits

Marcus Weldon, CTO and president of Nokia Bell Labs, and Basil Alwan and Sri Reddy, co-presidents of the IP/Optical Networks unit at Nokia will be leaving the company soon. Read more.

4. VMware Sues Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami, Alleges ‘Secret Meetings’ While COO

The lawsuit alleges Ramaswami breached his legal and contractual duties to VMware by “secretly meeting” with Nutanix’s top brass while working with VMware’s leadership to shape that company’s strategy. Read more.

3. AWS Blends Cisco, 12 Other SD-WAN Vendors Into VPC

The service is, out of the gate, supported by 13 SD-WAN vendors and available in three AWS regions. Read more.

2. Fortinet, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks Top Gartner Firewall Report

Huawei, Juniper Networks, and Cisco were ranked challengers in this year's report. Read more.

1. Cisco, Oracle, IBM Workers ‘Anxious’ About Job Cuts

A vast majority of employees at several technology firms expressed some level of concern over job security, according to a survey conducted by Blind and parsed through by Dice. Read more.