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

Verizon to Use KSI Blockchain Technology Developed for Estonia — Verizon is planning to offer blockchain services for enterprises.

Cisco Breaks its Revenue Losing Streak, Repatriates $66B in Overseas Cash — The company's intent-based networking is doing quite well.

Qualcomm Takes its Chip Expertise to the Edge — Qualcomm's edge software aims to secure and manage IoT devices.

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

Qualcomm’s senior management team and board of directors met with Broadcom to discuss Broadcom's intent to purchase Qualcomm.

Google released a beta version of its Cloud TPUs, which are optimized Google hardware accelerators for machine learning workloads.

Huawei will release a full series of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) products at Mobile World Congress 2018.

Tech Mahindra is collaborating with VMware to enable service providers to accelerate their new service delivery and network functions virtualization (NFV).

Alaskan-based telco provider GCI launched a cloud-based software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) service.

Verizon, Nokia, and Qualcomm completed the first over-the-air call on 3GPP-compliant 5G new radio (NR) technology.

New Relic extended new integrations for its insights software on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and for the first time Google Cloud Platform.

ZeroStack opened a new office in Singapore.

SD-WAN provider Versa Networks added its cloud IP platform software to network edge virtualization provider RAD’s virtual CPE toolbox.

Hyperscale networking solutions supplier Coriant entered into a partnership with New H3C Group (HPE and Unigroup), a Chinese information and communications technology provider to drive digital transformation in China.

Virtual network tester Spirent joined the Linux Foundation Networking Fund. It is the first test solution vendor in the group.

Quortus will collaborate with e-BO Enterprises to enable LTE voice and data for offshore wind farms via Quortus' edge technology.

Veriflow launched a partner program for its continuous network verification platform.

Hyperconverged company Pivot3 said its sales increased 65 percent in 2017 from the first half to the second half of the year.

Affirmed Networks opened an NFV center in Dubai to support NFV demand in the Middle East.

CommScope released an all-digital centralized radio access network (C-RAN) antenna system to centralize and virtualize baseband radio assets, a foundational design concept for 5G networks.

Security startup Infocyte secured $5.2 million in a Series B round and named Curtis Hutcheson CEO.

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