Weekly Wrap for Jan. 17, 2020

Plus, a Citrix ADC, Gateway bug is on the loose, and AT&T will deploy 5G at Nellis Air Force Base

5G competition has been rough on Nokia; Citrix promises a bug fix by month-end; and AT&T's 5G is set to fly.

Nokia Cuts 180 Jobs With More to Come

Citrix ACD, Gateway Bug Gets Even Uglier

AT&T Wins 5G Contract for Nellis Air Force Base

SDxCentral Weekly Wrap Full Transcript

Today is January 17, 2019, and this is the SDxCentral Weekly Wrap where we cover the week’s top stories on next-generation IT infrastructure.

This week’s episode of the Weekly Wrap is sponsored by Silver Peak. Learn more about the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution.

Nokia this week announced plans to cut 180 jobs in its home country of Finland as it continues to streamline its operating expenses and hinted that more cuts could be on the way.

The vendor said the job cuts could begin as early as next week and are part of its ongoing attempt to slash $556 million in operational costs by the end of this year.

Nokia counts 6,000 employees in its home country and said that it hired around 370 employees in Finland last year.

Those hires came as part of a broader commitment to increase its investment in 5G technology and automation.

But first the vendor must get through its current slump that it forecast will last through the end of this year.

Company executives have blamed its reduced near-term outlook on high costs associated with its first generation 5G products, challenges in China, and pricing pressure in early 5G deals.

The company expects its recovery efforts to result in improved financial performance in 2021, but the reduced guidance contrasts with Nordic rival Ericsson, which is forecasting growth through 2020.

Nokia said it ended 2019 with 63 commercial 5G contracts.

Citrix this week admitted that a fix for a security flaw in its Application Delivery Controller and Gateway products might not be available until later this month.

The vulnerability is present in more than 25,000 servers and was initially discovered last month.

If exploited, the bug could allow an attacker to access private enterprise networks without authentication.

Threat researchers at Bad Packets that discovered the flaw said that most of the impacted servers are located in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

They are being used by military and government systems, schools, hospitals and health care providers, utilities, financial institutions, and numerous Fortune 500 companies.

A pair of security research groups have already released proof-of-concept exploit code for the vulnerability.

Citrix’s chief information security officer explained in a blog post that patches for the bug...