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3GPP Delays ‘Second Wave’ of 5G Specs

The standards body insists there is no need for panic, as it announces a three-month delay in the completion of the Release 15 standard.

SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: Verizon Entices 10,400 Workers to Take Severance Package

SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for December 14, 2018: IHS SD-WAN report showed 23 percent revenue surge, VMware paid $550 million for Kubernetes boost from Heptio, and more of what you missed this week.

KubeCon Showed Kubernetes’ Power and Challenges

CNCF claimed 8,000 attendees and an additional 2,000 that were on a waitlist to attend this week's event. I think those on the waitlist snuck in.

SK Telecom Firms Up 5G Mobile Edge Partnership With Deutsche Telekom

The South Korean carrier is to partner with MobiledgeX, building on the deal signed with DT in October 2018.

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — December 14, 2018

Amazon Web Services opens in Sweden; Apple expands across the US; and the Hyperledger project expands its membership.

JEDI Wars: Amazon Web Services Strikes Back

AWS argues that it has a “direct and substantial economic interests at stake.” It says Oracle’s conflict-of-interest accusations are “meritless.”

Telus: SDN Gives Us a Dynamic, Automatically Controlled Network

“SDN is going to be a very broad deployment,” said Telus’ Bryce Mitchell. “We made sure we included SDN within the NFV pods themselves.”

Masergy’s New CEO Is Tasked to Grow Its SDN-Based Offerings

The company was pretty revolutionary with its idea to layer SDN on top of multiple third-party transport before all the SD-WAN vendors conceived of this.

Comcast Is Working on a uCPE That Runs Multiple VNFs With Its SD-WAN

The service provider is hoping to launch a cost-effective uCPE platform that supports more VNFs along with its SD-WAN early next year.

Dell EMC Claims Top Server Vendor Spot With $4B in Revenue, IDC Says

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) once again came in No. 2, with 16.3 percent revenue share or $3.81 billion.

Cellcom Picks Parallel Wireless vRAN Solution to Expand 4G, Prep for 5G

A regional U.S. carrier adds Parallel Wireless to its vendor portfolio to benefit from the flexibility of an open RAN approach for 4G and eventually 5G.

Verizon Has Migrated 80 Apps to Cloud Native Platforms

The carrier is near the half-way point on its 5-year journey in taking advantage of public cloud platforms.

VMware Paid $550M for Heptio to Boost Its Kubernetes Portfolio

That amount was a substantial premium over what Heptio had raised from investors and other similar deals in the Kubernetes space.

DPDK — One API to Rule Them All?

DPDK has extended its reach beyond packet processing and could be a universal API for other acceleration functions needed for effective NFV.

IBM, Nvidia Team Up on Converged Storage for AI Workloads

The new converged infrastructure combines IBM’s NVMe flash storage and software with Mellanox networking on Nvidia servers. It also uses Nvidia’s AI software stack.

Podcast: The State of Packet Forwarding

Enterprise network architectures are being reshaped using tenets popularized by the major cloud properties. This podcast explores this evolution and looks at the ways that real-time streaming telemetry, machine learning, and artificial intelligence affect how networks are designed and operated.

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