Cisco’s Catalyst 9K Switch Propels the Company’s Finances
The company now counts over 5,800 Catalyst 9000 customers, up from 3,100 last quarter.
Oracle Beefs Up Its Machine Learning With DataScience.com Acquisition
Oracle will integrate the DataScience.com cloud workspace platform for data science into its Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
How Will U.S. Tensions With China Affect Open Source Networking?
Hopefully there’s enough good will built up in open source groups to survive the actions of governments during these times.
Barracuda Drops Cloud-Delivered Web Application Firewall Service
Verizon’s annual data breach report found web applications had the most breaches in 2017.
Trump Axes Top Cybersecurity Role, Kaspersky Moves to Switzerland
A new U.S. cybersecurity strategy calls on government agencies to work more closely with private sector companies to reduce risks.
Rackspace Joins the Managed Kubernetes Fray
The company sees its platform as having a scale advantage over tech-focused vendors like Docker, but with more agility than larger systems integrators like IBM.
Get Ready for Real Disruption: The State of NFV
During the last five years, the NFV market has been heating up, but in order to reach the next steps of innovation and growth the market must fill a number of technological gaps.
Sprint Joins ORAN Alliance and Linux Foundation Networking Fund
The operator is growing its open source clout prior to its merger with T-Mobile.
RingCentral Unites SD-WAN and Unified Communications
RingCentral partners, such as VMware and CloudGenix, are optimizing their SD-WAN offerings to work in concert with RingCentral’s unified communications products.
Cryptojacking Is the New Black, Cloud Security Reports Say
One report found that 25 percent of organizations currently have illicit cryptomining activity in their cloud environments.
Sprint, Verizon Reveal New 5G Launch Markets
Early 5G markets will be a diverse group of cities — from densely populated New York City to flat, sprawling Phoenix.
Netscout’s Monitoring Makes the Cut in Telefónica’s Lab
Vendors that want to sell to Telefónica’s Unica must get their VNFs certified and comply with OSM.
ADVA Drives Cloud-Native Encryption Into ConnectGuard Platform
The cloud-native update also bolsters the platform's ability to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities.
HPE Buys Plexxi, Flexes Hyperconverged and Composable Muscles
Plexxi simultaneously announced updates to its hyperconverged software stack, building on its intent-based networking capabilities.
Adtran Shepherds Broadband Forum Project on Application-Level Testing
While Adtran has been working internally to build models for application-level testing, with Broadband Forum it can create a standards-based approach to the modeling.
Verizon to Migrate 1,000 Biz Apps and Backend Systems to AWS
The deal bolsters Verizon’s overall operations, but it also boosts AWS’ position among the country’s largest telecom operators.
Tap the Full Potential of Failsafe SD-WAN Q&A
Thanks to all who joined us for the Talari Networks DemoFriday, Tap the Full Potential of Failsafe SD-WAN. During the webinar, Talari Networks demonstrated the latest innovations, product feature updates and UI enhancements to its award-winning SD-WAN platform. After the demo, we took questions from the audience. Below is the full Tap the Full Potential of Failsafe SD-WAN Q&A.
T-Mobile: Not an All or Nothing When It Comes to vRAN
Virtualizing the RAN is a goal for operators but it won’t happen overnight.
Will Intel White Box uCPE Pass Service Providers’ Taste Tests?
A handful of OEMs are already building products based on the new reference architecture for uCPE.
Verizon’s Fixed 5G Plan Is Just 1 Slice of Its 5G Deployment Picture
The carrier sees an addressable market of some 30 million homes for its fixed 5G service plans, but it will also support slices for mobile and enterprise services.