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CloudFlare Raises $110M with Promise to Eliminate Lots of Hardware
A five-year-old upstart garners investments from Google, Microsoft, Baidu, and Qualcomm and sets its sights on competing with Amazon Web Services.
SK Telecom Deploys Samsung’s Virtual IMS & EPC
SK Telecom applies NFV to VoLTE, after dabbling with a vEPC.
ZTE Jumps Into OPNFV Testing
ZTE opens an OPNFV test bed and starts collecting NFV partners.
ONOS’ Drake Release Doesn’t Try to be SDN for Everybody
Ericsson and Huawei pitch in for the fourth ONOS code release in 10 months.
TM Forum Keeps its Head Above the Weeds on NFV Technology
Operators don't want TM Forum to get lost in NFV technicalities. They want the focus on making money.
Alcatel-Lucent Buys Device Security Firm Mformation
Unlucky in a 2012 BlackBerry lawsuit, Mformation has now been picked up by Alcatel-Lucent.
Cloud Boosts an Otherwise Lackluster Q1 for Oracle
Cloud has been a three-year 'startup' inside Oracle. Time to grow.
Mirantis Assembles Partners to Meet Demand for ‘NFV Magic’
Mirantis says customers want it to deliver NFV magic with all the bells and whistles, so it's assembling vendor partners to make it happen.
Alcatel-Lucent’s Elastic Networks: Jargon or Something Real?
Lots of things are called 'elastic' lately, but Alcatel-Lucent's Elastic CDN is more about network virtualization than industry jargon.
vCPE Is a Hot NFV Use Case for Masergy
Virtual customer premises equipment is one of several use cases for NFV, but the topic gets top billing at an NFV industry conference.
ClearPath Takes a Containerized Approach to Virtual CPE
Before NFV was even born, ClearPath had a vision for a containerized vCPE.
Microsoft’s New President Will Lead Security Policies
Brad Smith will be a big voice in the future of cloud security policies, globally.
Telefónica & NetCracker Trial a Self-Care VPN Service
The NEC subsidiary gives Telefónica a hand with SDN and NFV.
Oracle’s NFV Orchestrator Gains Control Over Physical Appliances
Oracle Leverages a layer of the ETSI NFV MANO framework to orchestrate both physical and virtual network functions.
Former HP Exec Now Heads Skyport Systems
Art Gilliland takes the reins as Skyport ramps its secure server.
Mobile Backhaul Takes a Page from Cloud Computing
Parallel Wireless approaches the RAN from a different perspective.
SDN Plays a Big Role in Nokia’s 5G Wireless Plans
Faster speeds were fine for 4G, but 5G brings SDN into play.
Telefónica Picks Juniper Over Alcatel-Lucent
A Wall Street analyst finds it "surprising" that Telefónica chose Juniper Networks edge routers, since the carrier had been an Alcatel-Lucent shop.
Ciena Gets Sunk by Tier 1s in Q3
Q3 disappoints, but Ciena says the Cyan acquisition points to a strong SDN future.
Network Monitoring Saves the World
Werner Herzog and NetScout are capturing it all on film.