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

Juniper Networks 'Realigns' its Workforce after Q3 Earnings — On a disappointing Q3 earnings call Juniper cites the timing of switching deployments as the reason for dampened revenues.

Cisco's $1.9B BroadSoft Purchase Gives it a Telecom Cloud Services Edge — The announcement follows the company's 200th acquisition last week, when it purchased artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perspica.

OPNFV Supports Containerized OpenStack and Kubernetes — Heather Kirksey, director of the Linux Foundation's OPNFV, talks to SDxCentral about the group's latest release Euphrates and discusses the organization's alternative CORD-type project.

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

ZTE reported a nine-month net profit growth of 36.58 percent.

OpenFog’s Reference Architecture will serve as the standard for a new IEEE Standard Association working group focused on fog computing and networking.

ZeroStack extended its hardware support to Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) hardware.

PCCW Global deployed its online cloud connect service providing connectivity to Microsoft Azure.

VMware launched the new VMware vSphere Beta Program.

Enea partnered with Clavister for virtual mobile solutions within the SDN and NFV environment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched P3 instances, the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) GPU instances.

Pivot3 reached a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics to bring Pivot3’s hyperconverged infrastructure products to its U.S. reseller base. Arrow will also provide configuration services for Pivot3’s platform on Lenovo servers.

Equinix expanded its direct, private access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to an additional 16 of its data centers.

Thirty new members joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Singtel launched the Singtel SD Branch that deploys through generic hardware for enterprises.

Openmind Networks will deploy its NFV-compliant mobile messaging platform with 20 mobile operators.

SK Telecom developed a technology that demonstrated WiFi speeds up to 4.8 Gb/s in South Korea.

The reseller VergX expanded its SD-WAN and SD-Security platform based on Versa Networks' technology.

The Industrial Internet Consortium published an Internet of Things (IoT) Analytics Report predicting one tenth of the world’s data will be produced by machines by 2020.

Adtran partnered with CCS, a UK-based company, to bolster its 5G portfolio, including self-organizing mmWave technology.

Three UK selected Mycom OSI’s assurance technology as part of Three UK's deployment of a telco cloud.

ETSI published a cybersecurity technical report that provides guidance on the new NIS Directive, which lays down measures for a common level of security of network and information systems across the European Union.

HashiCorp, a cloud infrastructure automation company, raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by GGV Capital and Redpoint.

Extreme Networks debuted a partner program that combines its three existing partner programs to deliver support based on partner feedback.

U.S. Cellular and Ericsson completed joint testing of 5G use cases at 28GHz.

AireSpring announced an integrated VeloCloud Powered SD-WAN package.

Demisto partnered with Securonix to integrate incident management tools for security analysts to improved time to response.

Aerohive extended its SD-LAN capabilities to remote locations and small branches, using an NFV appliance.

MTS, a Russian telecom company, chose Ericsson to deliver 5G and IoT technologies.

HPE launched a set of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and services.

ZTE partnered with Wind Tre and Open Fiber to build a 5G pre-commercial network in Europe.

Oracle released a report that found 46 percent of enterprise IT decision makers felt they lack the expertise to deploy new communication technologies.

Cray entered into an exclusive partnership with Microsoft to advance supercomputing.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:

  • AWS Usage Grows as Revenue Soars to $4.6B in Q3
  • Alphabet Knocks Another Quarter Out of the Ballpark
  • Microsoft Cloud Business Continues to Boom with AWS in its Sights
  • QCT Open Data Center Technology Poised to Help Telcos 'Win 5G Battles'
  • Elliott Management Acquires Gigamon for $1.6B
  • SendGrid Re-Architects Its IT Infrastructure to Work with AWS
  • Nokia's Q3 Hindered By Problems in its Mobile Networks Business Unit
  • Citrix Outlines its Cloud Subscription Model in its Q3 2017 Earnings Call
  • Japan's KDDI Chooses Versa Networks for SD-WAN
  • Security Startup Cryptonite Makes Networks 'Invisible' to Attackers
  • ZTE Scores 5G Deals in Italy, Adds Orange on 5G and Network Slicing
  • GE Digital Preps for More Processing by Expanding Predix at the Edge
  • HPE Bolsters AI Push With a Focus on Deep Learning
  • Cisco and Google Jump into Hybrid Cloud Game
  • ThousandEyes Adds Device Layer to Monitor Network Health
  • Microsoft Deepens Kubernetes Support Within Azure Container Service
  • NetApp Moves Healthix Toward Real-Time Analytics for 16M Patients
  • Google, Cisco, and Sprint Back ARM IoT Security Framework
  • Microsoft Aggressively Targets AWS with Cloud Service Map
  • Nokia Claims New Charging Software is Ready for 5G
  • CNCF's Latest Projects TUF and Notary Aimed at Security
  • Former AppDynamics Founder Launches Harness To Do Continuous Delivery
  • Fujitsu Provides SD-WAN for Service Providers via Silver Peak's Tech
  • Alphabet's Project Loon Delivers Internet in Puerto Rico
  • SK Telecom Pumps Up WiFi to Match 5G Speeds