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

AT&T Plans 60,000 dNOS-Powered White Boxes to Support 5G — The white box routers are part of a “radical realignment” of AT&T's network architecture.

Nokia Will Slash 353 Jobs in Network, Technology Units — Nokia total revenues dipped 1 percent to $8.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Reliance Jio Has Luxury of Building a Greenfield SDN Network — The Indian mobile operator is building a software-defined network (SDN) from scratch using Cisco, Samsung, and other vendors, along with cherry-picked open source code.

Here are the week's strays and stragglers we roped for you:
TM Forum partnered with the Linux Foundation to drive innovation of open source architectures and APIs, particularly for communications service providers.

Dell Technologies joined the Automotive Computing Consortium to support the deployment of connected vehicles.

Nokia released a new version of its cognitive analytics for customer insight software, leveraging its customer experience index.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released general availability of its hybrid cloud management tool, OneSphere.

Ericsson and Ambra Solutions delivered an LTE network for the Agbuci Eagle underground mine in Canada.

KDDI and Samsung tested 5G tablets and access units on millimeter wave spectrum at a baseball stadium in Japan.

The Linux Foundation started four new training courses to provide knowledge for ONAP and OPNFV.

European cloud-neutral colocation data center company Interxion Holding added direct access to IBM Cloud services at its footprint of European data centers.

ZTE released its virtualized broadband remote access servers (vBRAS) for managing physical and virtual forwarding planes.

Pica8 and NEC demonstrated a multi-vendor 100G switch fabric using the NEC SDN controller.

Pensa integrated its Maestro network functions virtualization (NFV) platform with the ONAP project.

Enea expanded its NFV lab for multi-architectural support and professional services.

RSA released a new Archer Cyber Risk Quantification use case to allow businesses to expose the financial risk associated with cybersecurity.

Mesosphere released its container application platform DC/OS on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

Avi Networks added new features to its next-generation delivery platform, including zero code automation for multi-cloud environments.

Carbon Black launched a partner program to improve cybersecurity using its open APIs and security cloud. Juniper Networks, LogRhythm, and Phantom have all already joined.

Next-generation platform Remesh secured $10 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst.

IT management consulting firm CapTech released an open source data ingestion engine.

Infinidat launched four new products for public cloud services and data production.

Security provider SonicWall started a managed security service provider (MSSP) program.

Zero touch security company Aporeto released the newest version of its security platform to better protect cloud-native enterprise applications.

Pulse Secure integrated with Fortinet for endpoint intelligence and automated threat response.

Cradlepoint has deployed its cloud-managed mobile network solutions in more than 1,000 public safety and first responder organizations in the U.S.

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