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Bharti Airtel’s Chairman Sees 5G Slicing as a Solution to Net Neutrality Debate
He promised on behalf of the “mobile operator fraternity” that they will never throttle speeds.
Ciena’s Blue Planet Dynamically Connects to a Variety of Clouds
The company’s SDN technology was chosen by CoreSite Realty to help its customers connect to public and private clouds and to adjust bandwidth as needed.
Google Becomes Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation
Sarah Novotny, the head of open source strategy for Google Cloud Platform, will join The Linux Foundation board of directors.
FOX Networks Trials Barefoot Networks’ Tofino Programmable Chip
Broadcast networks are increasingly moving to IP, and this gives them the opportunity to take advantage of a programmable forwarding plane.
Extreme Networks ‘Puts a Brain’ on Top of Wireless, Wired Networks
It can be difficult to control radio frequency (RF) conditions, which can be impacted by some atmospheric conditions.
Silver Peak Raises $90M From TCV to Accelerate SD-WAN Growth
Silver Peak differentiates itself from other SD-WAN vendors with its Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN physical or virtual appliance.
OpenSwitch Takes Networking on the Same Disaggregation Journey That Servers Took
One organization that is using OpenSwitch is Verizon Connect — Verizon’s business unit that provides fleet management and mobile workforce management.
The Latest DPDK Release Provides Better Memory Management
From a container perspective the open source group is putting functions in place for dynamic control of DPDK.
U.S. Lawmakers Attack Google for Its Huawei Relationship
The lawmakers claim Google is “more willing to support the Chinese Communist Party than the U.S. military.”
Spanish ISP Replaces Cisco Hardware Routers With 6WIND vRouter
Minorisa’s main reason for switching from Cisco and MikroTik to 6WIND and white box hardware was the higher throughput and the ability to transition to SDN.
Endpoint Security Firm Cylance Raises $120M in Series E
Cylance touts its predictive advantage technology that allows a company to protect endpoints from threats that may not exist for years to come.
Colt Launches Enterprise Connectivity Services in the U.S.
Colt services now available in the United States include enterprise bandwidth services up to 100 Gb/s.
4 Vendors Pay $500,000 Each to Join ONF’s Partner Supply Chain
Adtran, Dell EMC, Edgecore Networks, and Juniper Networks joined the ONF at the partner level in which they each pay $500,000 per year for five years.
Public Cloud Providers Spent 32% More on Infrastructure Year Over Year, Says Synergy Research
This is squeezing the growth opportunity for traditional vendors such as Dell EMC, Cisco, and HPE.
Telco Systems Co-Develops ARM-Based Universal CPE
With ARM, NXP, Marvell, and Cavium, Telco Systems is focusing on the development of performance acceleration, containerization of VNFs, and cybersecurity.
Versa Networks Has Sold 150,000 Licenses for Its SD-WAN
Versa prefers not to itemize its quarterly revenues on IHS Markit's SD-WAN vendor list. “Of that list of vendors, we’re the only one that is purely software and subscription based," says Versa's CEO.
AT&T Prevails in Court Case to Acquire Time Warner
The judgement could signal an easier regulatory environment for T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint. Or not.
VMware Releases NFV for OpenStack Specifically Tuned for Telcos
It’s a full OpenStack suite including compute, storage, networking, and the virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) layer. It comprises an end-to-end NFVi platform.
ONAP’s Second Code Release, Beijing, Enables the Software to Use Kubernetes
While AT&T and China Mobile contributed the lion’s share of the initial code for ONAP, others are now stepping up to contribute more. A snapshot of contributors from the second quarter of 2018 shows that Huawei, Amdocs, and ZTE, along with many others, are contributing.
Deutsche Telekom Creates Blockchain App to Protect Mobile Phone Data
DT created its application based on the SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain, SAP’s blockchain as a service offering.