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

Broadcom's Jericho2 Programmable Chip Claims 10 Tb/s Switching Capacity — AT&T's Chris Rice, SVP of Domain 2.0, praises the new chip.

Vodafone Finds Containers Drastically More Efficient Than VMs — Resource savings with containers is pegged at around 40 percent.

VMware SVP, GM Jeff Jennings Jumps Ship for Google — He'll report to VMware founder and former CEO Diane Greene at Google Cloud.

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

Telefónica and China Unicom signed an agreement to access each other’s networks and deploy each other’s Internet of Things (IoT) technologies using a single global IoT SIM card.

Telefónica added Microsoft Azure services to its multicloud portfolio for its enterprise customers.

The Pentagon slashed its deal with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) partner Rean Cloud from nearly $1 billion to no more than $65 million, following criticism of showing favoritism.

ATS, CloudOps, Comarch, Customer Care, JMA Wireless, and Ribbon Communications joined the Linux Foundation’s LF Networking Fund.

Aqua Security released version 3.0 of its container security platform. It also introduced Kubernetes-native enterprise security controls on version 3.0.

Dropbox launched its global collaboration platform on Equinix’s cloud exchange fabric.

Red Hat validated its operating system and hypervisor for SAP Hana environments.

F5 released its Super-NetOps training program to help IT organizations embrace automation and address DevOps skills gaps.

McAfee acquired TunnelBear, a consumer VPN company.

Security cloud company OPAQ Networks added micro segmentation for workstations and other endpoints on its cloud platform.

Engineering firm Layer 3 Communications will incorporate cyber defense company IronClad Encryption’s natively secure Docker containers into its products and services.

AlgoSec released AlgoSaaS, a network security management platform.

The Serbian Open Exchange deployed IP Infusion's OcNOS network operating system and Edgecore Networks' hardware in its Internet exchange point network.

Mobile edge computing (MEC) company EdgeMicro began verification of its data center technologies with a mobile network operator and unveiled its rollout plan for its first micro data centers.

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