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

The End of Larry Vs. Amazon? AWS Looking to Dump Oracle, Report Says — Salesforce also wants to say "Sayonara" to Oracle software.

AT&T Plans to Launch Mobile 5G in 12 Markets This Year — Its mobile 5G service will be based on the new 3GPP non-standalone 5G NR standard.

The Brocade Sale Concludes a Year-Long Shopping Frenzy — It began and ended with dramatic decisions by Broadcom.

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

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai cancelled his appearance at next week's CES conference after death threats.

Private investment firm Elliott Management completed its acquisition of cybersecurity company Gigamon.

Nokia, T-Mobile, and Intel collaborated on a trial, bringing a 28 GHz outdoor 5G commercial radio system on air in the downtown corridor of Bellevue, Washington.

Technology distributor Avnet launched its IoTConnect cloud platform, which uses Microsoft’s enterprise-grade Azure hybrid cloud service.

Network monitoring company InfoVista signed an agreement with Ericsson for the Operations Support Systems Interoperability Initiative (OSSii).

Radisys closed a $17 million financing round with Hale Capital Partners and entered a $20 million asset-backed line of credit with Marquette Business Credit.

Mavenir acquired the mobile data company Aquto.

AlgoSec, a cybersecurity management company, secured a $36 million investment from Claridge IL.

The network monitoring company Martello completed its merger with Elfiq Networks, a software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) company. Elfiq will become a subsidiary of Martello.

Quortus and Lime Microsystems, a wireless network hardware provider, partnered to create a cellular core network realized as an app.

Mellanox debuted its BlueField system-on-chip platforms and its SmartNIC adapters.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered the past two weeks: