You can put Barry Eggers, a partner at venture capital (VC) firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, in the bull camp on Software Defined Networking (SDN). He believes it's big. It

In a broad counter-move to the growing momentum behind open networking protocols and a raft of Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups, Cisco today announced its own open protocol, called

Arista IPO: No Joke! Arista appears set to file S-1 before April 1st.

There's a downside to all of that big data, social media, and Netflix downloading: Energy and carbon. Data centers are massive consumers of energy, which is a huge component

After years of practicing Stuart Smalley-type self-affirmations, the optical industry is feeling better about itself again. With the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) under way in San Francisco, optimistic reports

Earlier in the Week, I was a guest on SiliconANGLE'S theCUBE TV show. It was a great experience. Below are two of the segments I appeared on, in which

I'm back from Open Networking Summit (ONS), where I was briefed by many companies, did some television with the classy guys over at SiliconANGLE and theCUBE, and heard many

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit (ONS) -- Last night, having digested some of the first keynote of the Open Networking Summit (along with some decent lamb kebabs

What would it take for Quagga to flourish? The open-source routing stack fuels the success of some very large service providers and Web properties — most of which aren't

From Mobile World Congress, a chat with Sanqi Li, CTO of the carrier network business group, about the scaling challenges of SDN, the motivations for NFV at the edge,

What's fun about being a journalist/analyst (or "Janalyst" as I call it) is you get to meet lots of people -- and learn new things. Sometimes these things are

Looks like AT&T is getting serious with what it calls "Domain 2.0," its new software-defined architecture for deploying new hardware, software and services. Today it announced its first list

You can't throw a stone on the Internet without hitting some big data. But what's interesting about big data, and its cousin, analytics, is that the technology has hundreds

The open revolution continues. Over the past week, there's been another surge of networking and data-center deals focused on open networking, open source, and Software Defined Networking (SDN). It's

There's been a crazy media circus around NFL football player Richard Sherman, which culminated with the Seattle Seahawks cornerback on national TV describing ESPN's Skip Bayless as a "cretin"

In this exclusive interview, SDNCentral talks to CableLabs about their recent implementation of a new southbound protocol on the OpenDaylight controller and the success of their proof-of-concept with the

Funny how some forgotten stocks suddenly becomes popular when an activist hedge-fund manager makes a play. Such is the case with Juniper Networks (JNPR), which yesterday was subject to

SDN and NFV Technology Trends to Watch in 2014

In looking for a "Big Themes" to latch on to for 2014, I keep coming back to open source -- and what it means for just about every industry.

No, Huawei isn't exiting the U.S. enterprise and data-center markets. In fact, as COO Jane Li explains, the company has stong ambitions when it comes to the cloud, the

You would think it's just a sleepy Monday before New Year's Eve, but for large networking technology vendors worrying about their Software Defined Networking (SDN) strategy, it may not

Check out our latest interview in our NFV Interview Series. We're speaking with Wes George of Time Warner Cable about how SDN and NFV fit into a cable MSO's

From the development of NFV to the formation of the OpenDaylight Project, 2013 was a busy year for the SDN world, making for some pretty good interview fodder. Here

What can a Cisco investor do? Wait, and hope the stock stops dropping. The stock, now in a bad downtrend, dropped again this week both before and after Cisco