The U.S. House approves $750 million funding in its Open RAN 5G bill, prioritizing supply chain security, but faces U.S. Senate and near-term tech hurdles.

Guavus introduces Guavus-IQ for AWS augmenting its CSP-focused cloud-based analytics portfolio in the CX and network operations domains.

Oracle debuts Oracle Digital Experience for Communications aimed at giving CSPs the unified data key to driving and winning CX battles.

Cisco unveils its new Catalyst 8000 Edge platforms, further differentiating application & network security and monitoring capabilities at the WAN edge.

Cisco unveils six new Silicon One devices, further differentiating its 12.8T router and Web scale switching proposition and Internet for the Future vision.

Juniper’s $450 million acquisition of 128 Technologies yields session awareness differentiators to its nascent SD-WAN portfolio, but will it be enough?

ADTRAN’s new Channel Partner Program streamlines partner and discount levels that meet growing demand for more efficient, profitable channel relations.

Cisco, Qwilt, and Digital Alpha take aim at making CDNs more economical and rewarding for CSPs, providing the template to disrupt the CDN realm.

Lattice’s Defense Event highlighted its ability to definitively differentiate against key FPGA rivals and power innovation in the defense industry.

Mavenir buys ip.access to bolster its multi-G mobile proposition in areas like OpenRAN and is poised to make geopolitical-driven and private network inroads

OCI’s latest roadmap stresses chipset alliances and price/performance differentiators winning new deals but must await H1 2021 for many key breakthroughs.

MATRIXX Digital Commerce’s latest native cloud enhancements further differentiates its 5G charging proposition and propelling 5G monetization.