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Ericsson opened a new headquarters in Hungary and partnered with Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Ericsson also was granted a credit of $291 million to support the research and development of 5G.

Nokia’s Chinese subsidiary, Nokia Shanghai Bell, won an optical transport network project in Beijing and Tianjin, China.

Nokia closed on the sale of its Digital Health business. It sold to Eric Carreel, co-founder and former chairman of Withings.

Apstra, Dell EMC, and cloud service provider Awnix partnered to deploy OpenSwitch on Dell switches in a service provider network.

Hyperconverged software provider Maxta added support for the Red Hat OpenShift container platform on its private cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced general availability of its managed graph database service, Neptune. AWS also introduced pay-per-session pricing for Amazon QuickSight, its cloud-powered, business analytics service.

SoftBank and cloud operator CloudMinds developed a authentication system based on blockchain.

CenturyLink’s SD-WAN, security, and network access technology received certifications for all cloud and managed DNA services based on Cisco’s Meraki platform.

The Linux Foundation started a free introductory course on open source networking technologies.

Sprint, KT, KDDI, SK Telecom, Swisscom, and Telecom Italia joined the Linux Foundation Networking Fund.

The Apache Software Foundation received additional support from Verizon subsidiary Oath.

Food and beverage packing company SIG will deploy GE Digital’s Predix industrial IoT applications in over 400 factories.

Alibaba Cloud and ASL are collaborating on the cloud market in Hong Kong and Macau, China.

Kublr released version 1.9.2 of its Kubernetes platform so enterprises can deploy the Kublr platform and Kubernetes clusters in isolated environments without internet access.

GTT Communications closed its acquisition of European fiber operator Interoute.

Chef released version 2.0 of its next-generation automation platform, launched its Workstation for ad-hoc DevOps tasks, and added enhancements to Habitat and InSpec.

Software provider Senet and Laird collaborated on an IoT gateway to deploy low range WAN (LoRaWAN).

Inseego launched a suite of IoT device-to-cloud software for fixed and mobile deployments.

Interset, a security analytics company, released version 5.6 of its AI-enabled security analytics platform.

Security company Jask added new features to its autonomous security operations center platform to help operators visualize network attacks.

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