Radisys Will Use ETSI’s MEC Standards for its Edge Software Platform
Radisys says operators want a platform that supports specific applications. They don't want to uncertainty about which platform to use.
Inspur Donates New Server Configurations to the Open Compute Project
The Chinese server vendor Inspur participates in all of the open hardware platforms, including OCP, the Open Data Center Community, and Open19.
Microsoft Ignite Lacks Azure Pizzazz
Some in attendance at the computing giant's Ignite event thought that Azure innovation was lacking and that Google was a stronger long-term rival to AWS.
AT&T Contributes Its Cell Site White Box Router Spec to the Open Compute Project
This white box reference design is available to any hardware maker to use as a guide to build cell site gateway routers. And they can be paired with disaggregated software.
Verizon Fires Up First Residential 5G Fixed Wireless Markets
Verizon is touting the fact that it is the first operator globally to deploy 5G, even though the service is based upon the company’s own 5G TF standard.
Oracle Top Cloud Exec Thomas Kurian Resigns
Kurian's resignation comes less than a month after he announced that he was taking “extended time off” from Oracle.
SDxCentral Drills Into the Silicon Foundation of Network Virtualization
Network virtualization has primarily focused on software. But now there’s interest in the lower layers of the network: commodity hardware and the silicon that drives the hardware.
HPE Revamps Its StoreOnce Data Protection and Backup
The updates essentially allow enterprises to store data once, then copy it to an all-flash on-premises array, and send it to a public cloud for for archiving or disaster recovery.
AT&T, Microsoft Score Multi-Million-Dollar Air Force Wins
Both are “service experiments” in that the military wants to trial private companies — as opposed to Air Force service members — to provide IT and networking services.
Weekly Wrap Podcast: Nutanix Trumps VMware
Sept. 28, 2018 — CenturyLink takes SD-WAN global; Vodafone and China Mobile tap ONAP; and more.
Will Verizon’s Fixed 5G Wireless Suffer the Same Fate as WiMAX?
The operator’s upcoming fixed 5G wireless service launch will likely face some significant challenges in terms of coverage, return on investment, and scalability.
Perhaps MANO Is Irrelevant for Virtualized Carrier Networks
Good integrated CI/CD and an orchestrator like Kubernetes could negate the need for MANO.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — September 28, 2018
Vasona Networks gets purchased by ZephyrTel; Kubernetes releases its newest version; and news out of Microsoft Ignite.
Sprint Says Packet, Open19 Give It 5G Flexibility
Sprint's Aaron Hinkle also weighed in on SDN: “When you move to the edge you have to be able to do a full SDN deployment.”
LinkedIn: Open19 Data Center Tech Ready for Prime Time and Edge
While the Open19 Project started as a way for LinkedIn to optimize its data centers, its founders quickly realized that the platform was well suited for edge deployments.
Barefoot Preps for 5G and IoT With Its Tofino Chip and the P4 Language
Paired with the P4 programming language, Barefoot’s Tofino chip gives users the freedom to design what the chip can do.
Bandwidth Alliance Works to Slash Cloud Interconnect Fees
AWS and Google are notably absent from the group, though Microsoft and IBM are on board.
NB-IoT Bounds Toward Reality With Network Deployments and Trials
Ericsson and Telstra extended the 3GPP standards-based limit for a long-range narrowband IoT data connections from 40 km to 100 km through software upgrades.
5G Rollouts Get a Boost From FCC Small Cell Rules
The government agency gave time limits to cities to approve or reject requests from wireless operators to install small cell sites in neighborhoods.
Riverbed Strikes SD-WAN and IT Edge Partnerships With Microsoft
Previously, SteelFusion has been available out-of-box for VMware environments only. But now, Riverbed is providing SteelFusion for native Microsoft Windows Server environments for Hyper-V.