SDxCentral’s SDN & NFV Weekly Roundup

CenturyLink and Cisco Meraki team up on WiFi; GTT completes $100M Global Capacity purchase.

ONF consolidates open source communities; More than 21,000 people attended the first Mobile World Congress Americas.

Security vendor Dataiku raised $28 million; ECI extends switching to metro networks.

Oracle hires 5,000 for its cloud business; Kolos builds the world's largest data center.

Intel and World Wide Technology launch new NFV testing facility; Barefoot and Cisco do IPv6 segment routing.

MongoDB reportedly files for an IPO; ADVA completes acquisition of MRV Communications; Mirantis launches Kubernetes and Docker Bootcamp.

Cisco promotes David Goeckeler, again; SK Telecom's CTO steps down.

Pulse Secure completes acquisition of Brocade assets; Riverbed releases Xirrus access point.

Microsoft releases Azure Container Instances; ZTE and Intel publish a white paper about containerized vEPC.

Extreme's purchase of Brocade assets gets postponed; Arista loses to Cisco on import dispute; A fun map shows the top tech companies in each state.

China Telecom and Ericsson launch an IoT platform; QualiTest Group acquires Experior Group.

Nokia completes its Comptel acquisition; Windstream joins the ONAP Project.

Mellanox and HPE build machine learning data centers; Talari Networks partners with Technology Solutions.

GE launches Predix application suite; Netronome supports latest OPNFV software release.

Nokia cuts 170 jobs; 10 new companies joined ONAP.