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Amdocs Leverages ONAP to Win Microsoft as a Customer
Amdocs' leadership position in ONAP seems to have given it an entrée with a major public cloud provider. And an Amdocs exec says open source is an environment where you cannot disconnect technical relationships from business.
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.
AT&T’s dNOS Morphs Into the Linux Foundation’s DANOS
At the Open Networking Summit, AT&T said DANOS was critical to the company as it deploys 60,000 white boxes and transforms its network to deal with the onslaught of traffic and the advent of 5G.
ONF Operator Members are Tired of Vendor Inertia
Step up or get out of the way, say the operator board members of ONF, including AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, Deutsche Telekom, NTT Group, Telefonica, and Turk Telekom.
Linux Foundation Creates Deep Learning Foundation and AI Project
The founding members of LF Deep Learning are Amdocs, AT&T, B.Yond, Baidu, Huawei, Nokia, Tech Mahindra, Tencent, Univa, and ZTE.
Google Is Working on Blockchain Technology, Too
The secretive company joins cloud competitors Microsoft, AWS, and IBM, which are all looking at blockchain and being more open about it.
Facebook Innovates to Cope With Massive East-West Data Center Traffic
A recurring topic at the Open Compute Project summit was the increase in east-west traffic within data centers. To cope with this traffic, Facebook innovated a distributed network system called the Fabric Aggregator.
OCP and Linux Foundation Bring Hardware Together with Software
Things that fell apart are coming together again.
Microsoft Disaggregates Layers in Flash Storage With Denali Project
The goal is to make flash storage more adaptable for cloud data centers.
Hyperledger Intros Caliper to Measure Blockchain Performance
Currently, there is no open source blockchain benchmarking tool.
The P4 Language Grows Up, Joins the ONF and Linux Foundation
P4 takes SDN to the next level, bringing programmability to the forwarding plane.
Sedona Systems Unveils Hierarchical SDN Controller
It sits above domain controllers from packet and transport vendors.
Why Do We Need the Virtual Central Office When We Already Have CORD?
It harks back to the age-old preference for one controller over another.
Aryaka’s Global Network Provides Unique SD-WAN Security
Aryaka's Passport service integrates security from Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and Radware.
Broadcom Accelerates Move Back to U.S. as Part of Qualcomm Quest
Intel worries about a combined Broadcom-Qualcomm.
ONF Launches New Open Source SDN Switching Platform – Stratum
Google pines for a truly programmable data plane.
Cisco Extends Intent-Based Networking from the LAN to the WAN
Two new products provide assurance in the WAN.
Tensions Between U.S. and China Factor into Qualcomm-Broadcom Fight
Broadcom offers to sweeten the pot with $1.5B for engineer training.
There’s a New SD-WAN Kid on the Block: Netsurion
Netsurion's SD-WAN is targeted to multi-tenant enterprises.
A ZTE Telco Customer Wants ZTE VNFs with Red Hat OpenStack
ZTE has its own customized NFVi layer built on OpenStack.