SoftBank Telecom Corporation

"SoftBank trusted us in 2016, and we’ve been working with them as partners ever since," says Frinx's CEO. "Folks say it is very important who your first customer is.”

The sheer size of the fund dwarfs other global tech investment rounds.

SoftBank and Qualcomm will play a role in the launch.

But narrowband-IoT and LTE-M networks will see strong growth in 2018 and beyond.

There's more to life than Intel, Packet says.

Out with market consolidation and in with market growth.

Packet competes with the likes of AWS and Azure.

As founding member of the LoRa Alliance, it's no surprise SoftBank is deploying a LoRaWAN network.

Cradlepoint merges its wireless tech with Pertino's SD-WAN.

ARM gets a buyer; SoftBank gets ... more debt?

NTT will run EPC in its network with NFV technology, starting in March.

Tail-f sticks to its multivendor roots and declares a YANG revolution.

In this week's SDN-related news: Meg Whitman takes the chair at HP; VMware expands its cloud reach in Asia, while BTI does the same in Europe; and Juniper and A10 separately gear up to fight DDoS attacks.

This week's Interop-heavy roundup includes the 'Open Cloud Project,' new switches, a new SDN architecture, and new partner programs. Plus, find out who went home with the Best of Interop Grand Prize.