Nightingale has a ThousandEyes. (Mea Culpa - couldn't resist) Check out Cisco's Todd Nightingale blog on the acquisition of ThousandEyes announced this afternoon. blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-cor…

Nuage SDN platform selected by China Telecom for public cloud service. Great win for Nuage/ALU. DDoS protection too. bit.ly/1CZ7Ttq

Moving Tribute to Akamai founder Danny Lewin, the first person to die on 9/11 cnn.it/1lWkbgs

We're delighted to welcome Jim Duffy to 451 as Sr. Analyst in our Networking practice, where he'll continue to kick butt and take names.

451 weighs in on Brexit - The British exit and tech: After the shock, uncertainty is the only certainty: bit.ly/292VUoI

Sign of the times: ThousandEyes 1st to launch an officially supported 3rd party KVM app on select Cisco routers bit.ly/29yTXhT

Carrier are looking for a virtualization blueprint: AT&T & Orange Align on Standardizing SDN and NFV bit.ly/2a7RfNs

Nokia Bell Labs is at it again, pushing Shannon Limit with Probabalistic Constellation Shaping 1Tbps over fiber nokia.ly/2cPcOGk

Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson adds strategy to his title. Rima Qureshi now heads NA region and Cisco relationship. bit.ly/2cARXF5

You know to avoid Justin Biever and Miley Cyrus, but how about Amy Schume: the Most Dangerous Celebrity on the web? fw.to/efWO84a

Intel releases The Beast for sampling: The Stratix 10 - industry first 14nm FPGA. Good news for Networks. fw.to/afn5VcO

Courts hating on patent trolls. Software should be copyrighted, not patented. for.tn/2dmmyti?xid=fo…

451 from AWS re:invent: AWS+1 will become default cloud strategy in 2017 bit.ly/2gEPFGj

It’s Not Just Arista — Brocade Is Using Cavium’s XPliant Too sdxcentral.com/articles/news/…

NEC/Netcracker garners 2 SDN/NFV Product of the Year Awards by TMC bit.ly/2jUFQJN

IBM & Ericsson announce one step closer to 5G with silicon-based mmWave phased array antenna module at 28GHz ericsson.com/news/2076554

Positive news on FCC for once: Trump to renominate Rosenworcel to FCC rcrwireless.com/20170614/polic… via RCR Wireless News

He's baaaack. Good to see Ed Kennedy at CENX cenx.com/cenx-appoints-…

Ericsson retrenching. Will focus on telco clients - Mobile World Live bit.ly/2tguNPJ

AMDOCS and ONAP are building momentum. Can ONAP pull away from OSM and vendor (NetCracker) competition? bit.ly/2jlkVAt