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ZTE shares dropped 23 percent after the U.S. Senate passed a $716 billion military funding bill that included negative implications for the company.

T-Mobile filed its Public Interest Statement with the Federal Communications Commission ahead of its proposed merger with Sprint.

VMware extended its commitment to the U.S. public sector with a forthcoming hybrid cloud service: VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud.

The U.S. Department of Defense completed its integration of a Verizon-led unified communications platform to one of its agencies.

Google opened a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region at its existing data center in Hamina, Finland.

AT&T was named Equinix partner of the year following its delivery, execution, and expansion of Equinix interconnection services.

Huawei tested and verified some of the new 5G technologies and functions from the 3GPP release 16.

Nokia and Orange conducted a live network trial to validate cloud-optimized radio access networks for 5G technologies.

Rackspace partnered with HPE to launch a Kubernetes-as-a-service pay-per-use infrastructure in a private cloud.

An IHS report found that Aryaka is within 1 percent of passing VMware in overall leadership in SD-WAN market share and revenues.

Broadband Forum and NTT demonstrated the disaggregation of time-critical PON functions.

Vonage added support of its omnichannel contact center product suite to businesses using its cloud-native unified communications platform.

Nokia reached a five-year deal with HCL Technologies. HCL will outsource Nokia’s IT management services.

IDC published its semi-annual IoT spending guide. It forecasts that IoT spending will reach $1.2 trillion in 2022.

Fortanix added security capabilities to its encryption platform for Python- and R-based applications.

The State of California IT consulting firm Enterprise Networking Solutions deployed Cloudian HyperStore products as a storage-as-a-service offering for California.

Extreme Networks launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled network edge platform.

Open networking company Adtran joined the Open Networking Foundation as a supply chain partner and advisory board member.

A report from Accenture said that 5G wireless networks will contribute $40 billion to Canada’s economy by 2026.

Gigamon and FireEye will partner to improve security offerings to joint customers.

Software testing providers Tricentis and QASymphony merged under the name Tricentis.

Indonesian insurance company PT Jasa Raharja selected Riverbed SD-WAN for network management at 860 of its locations.

SD-WAN provider Lavelle Networks debuted its cloud-controlled SD-WAN technology.

Red Hat launched version 7 of its cloud-native platform for business automation across hybrid cloud environments.

ExtraHop released a new version of Reveal(x) with critical asset behavior analysis to find threats.

F-Secure acquired security company MWR InfoSecurity.

Technology provider Syniverse launched a private network to secure IoT.

Pica8 ported its network operating system to the Dell 1G PoE Ethernet switch.

Sylabs launched a global partner program that enables partners to deliver its container platform.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) published a white paper on edge computing in industrial IoT.

IoT provider Rigado raised $15 million in a Series A funding round.

Data migration and management vendor Archive360 added enhancements to its intelligent management and archiving platform to manage structured and unstructured data.

Oscilloquartz, a provider of synchronization systems, launched a reference time clock system for when the GNSS signal is lost.

Riverbed released its annual Digital Performance Global Survey.

Cloud-native technology provider Agari raised $40 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.

Hybrid cloud platform startup CloudBolt closed a $23 million Series A funding round.

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