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

Barefoot's Tofino Chip and P4 Could Replace Load Balancers — The programmable chip costs the same as fixed-function chips, and advances SDN.

It's the 'Telecom' Infra Project, Not the 'Facebook' Infra Project — The open optical group has been the most prominent work within TIP, so far.

MEC May Be As Disruptive as 5G, SDN, or NFV, iGR Research Says — MEC marries the data center and the radio.

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

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a warning on a WiFi security flaw found by researchers who say it could leave "the majority" of connections at risk until they are patched.

Dell EMC debuted its Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack on Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation servers powered by Intel Xeon Scalable Processors.

GE partnered with Apple to deliver GE’s Predix SDK to the iPhone and iPad. The Internet of Things (IoT) platform will be available October 26.

Bosch and Nokia partnered to deploy industrial IoT solutions from sensors through to applications. The partnership will combine Nokia’s IoT connectivity and platforms with Bosch’s Connected Devices and Solutions.

Colt launched SDN-based On Demand Services in Japan.

ZTE joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a gold member. ZTE joins as the company continues to contribute to Kubernetes.

AirTies unveiled an in-home WiFi performance management system for service providers.

Investor AB took over from Cevian Capital as the largest shareholder of Ericsson.

ThingPark China will build an IoT Ecosystem Lab in Beijing. The lab will help advance LoRaWAN-based IoT in local markets.

Aqua launched version 2.6 of its Container Security Platform, adding 40 customer-requested features.

FileCloud released Breach Intercept, which offers ransomware protection.

Intel invested $60 million in 15 technology startups focused on data. The new additions bring the company's year-to-date investing to more than $566 million.

MEGA International released a new version of its HOPEX IT Architecture to align IT with business roadmaps.

Windstream expanded its SDN Orchestrated Waves (SDNow) to new markets. It now reaches 50 markets in the U.S.

DataCore added new features to its software-defined infrastructure product family intended to drive multi-core parallel I/O processing.

Nokia launched its Wireless PON solution, allowing operators to bring gigabit services to customers using wireless technology.

ZTE launched a comprehensive Pre 5G upgrade that allows existing 4G subscribers to experience 5G-like services.

Anomali integrated with McAfee’s Enterprise Security Manager, combining the Anomali’s threat intelligence with the collected security event data from McAfee.

Samsung launched new secure systems-on-modules and services for the ARTICK IoT Platform. Additionally, the platform will now integrate with Samsung’s SmartThings Cloud.

Cisco added a new feature to its Smart PHY, extending the automation capabilities beyond the device.

ZTE and Telenet will build the first FDD Massive MIMO field application in Europe.

MegaPath launched Fortinet cybersecurity technology on its SD-WAN enterprise software.

Interoute added its Edge SD-WAN service meshed into its global Cloud Fabric.

Spirent aided China Telecom Beijing Research Institute in completing a carrier-class broadband remote access server test that decoupled the virtualization layer and the hardware layer.

Canadian Solar deployed the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.

du underwent a successful trial of Nokia's SDN technology.

IBM introduced a blockchain banking solution.

Lenovo launched a pre-integrated hybrid cloud solution for Microsoft Azure. The solution extends Azure services on premises.

Alibaba partnered with RedHat to bring Red Hat's open source solutions to Alibaba's global Cloud customers.

Digital Asset reported a Series B funding round led by Jefferson River Capital, bringing its total funding to over $110 million. The company appointed Clyde Rodriguez as CIO and CTO of engineering.

Verizon and Novatel Wireless will collaborate on a 5G New Radio millimeter wave technology development.

Ericsson and Magyar Telecom demonstrated Hungary's first 5G link.

Cisco launched a new portfolio, Business Critical Services, that delivers advanced predictive and preemptive services to clients.

Symantec will migrate all of its data and applications to Microsoft Azure's public cloud by March 2018. The company will continue to run some financial applications on its own servers and use AWS for development work.

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