Sprint Joins ONF’s CORD Project Signaling Open Source Interest
CORD remains a radical notion but is gaining traction with service providers.
Q&A: Verizon’s Venkatraman Talks Network Transformation and Nimble Startups
Verizon is taking networking tips from Facebook and Google.
Global Capacity Will Use VeloCloud for Managed SD-WAN
The managed SD-WAN service will be available at the end of the second quarter.
Pica8’s PicOS Supports Dell’s 100G White Box Switch
Pica8 now supports five 100G white box switches.
SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — March 2017
Google lends expertise to mobile operators; Cisco might split up hardware and software businesses.
Announcing the New NSX Community at VMUG!
This new community will be dedicated to network and security virtualization.
Looker Raises $81M as It Helps Shepherd Database Technology Into the Cloud
Looker has raised a total of $177.5 million since 2013.
Microsoft Azure Adds Console as an ExpressRoute Connectivity Partner
Console provides layer 3 software automation for the connection.
Huawei Operates 8 Regional Data Centers Running 1 Million VMs
Huawei created a container orchestration platform known as FusionStage.
Former Ericsson Chief Hans Vestberg to Run Verizon’s Network Team
The addition of Vestberg is part of a bigger company restructuring.
Service Providers are Changing for the Cloud
Service providers want to leverage the benefits of NFV and, more broadly, cloudification.
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — March 31, 2017
AT&T becomes Linux Foundation Platinum member; AWS rolls out Amazon Connect.
Qualcomm Rearranges Tech Team, James Thompson Named CTO
The shuffle comes in advance of the close of the NXP acquisition.
Dell Technologies Reports Positive Q4 Earnings, EMC Boosts Results
The company's Infrastructure Solutions Group has seen impressive growth.
Kenyan Provider Builds SDN Network to Support 10GE Services
Telco Systems thinks the deal will lead to more work in Africa.
Verizon Goes Nationwide With LTE CAT-M IoT Network
The network is built on a virtualized cloud environment.
Extreme Buys the Brocade Data Center Networking Assets for $55M
Extreme recently also announced it was buying Avaya's networking assets.
Cisco Calls Rumors of Software, Hardware Disaggregation ‘Unsubstantiated’
Taiwanese switch ODMs grab data center market share.
NTT Communications Rolls Out New Cloud Services
SD-WAN, security, and monitoring are components of SDx+M.
Weaveworks Makes Microservices Platform More Developer-Friendly
The new features are meant to be attractive to larger customers.