A few weeks ago I caught up with Scott Raney, a partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on IT and consumer technology. He is knowledgable in cloud computing, on-demand software,

Now that everyone in the US has recovered from their Thanksgiving dinners--and hopefully worked all those extra calories off--we're announcing winners of our Turkeys of SDN competition. Read on

BOSTON -- Plexxi, a data networking company based in the Boston area, may be the zen startup of data networking -- it is both "hot" and quiet at the

While the frothy world of speculative excess bubbles up in social-media IPOs, Tesla, and Bitcoin, the same cannot be said for the old-school networking business, where hardware margins and

With the Thanksgiving season upon us here in the United States, we thought it might be a good time to run a fun little competition at SDNCentral on the

In joining the OpenDaylight Project as its first executive director, Neela Jacques got to hear a lot — a whole lot — about why the open-source SDN effort is

Well, the Insieme Networks folks have been payed off. The startup showed just how important it was, as Cisco announced today that was aquiring Insieme for $860 million as

Check out our latest interview in our NFV Interview Series! This time, we get the MSO perspective on SDN and NFV as we chat with Chris Donley, Director, Advanced

F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV) had some good news for investors this morning, as it announced results that beat analyst expectations. The company also raised guidance going forward. In pre-market

Holy mother of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Are people really such big suckers? Are they that naive? Yesterday, AT&T and Cisco jumped on the marketing bandwagon to pile on

SAN FRANCISCO -- Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi, the former Cisco Systems executive who is now a venture partner with Index Ventures, sat across from me in the comfy chairs of

The Software Defined Networking (SDN) market just got more complicated. Nothing demonstrates that more than the rumors floating around the alleged declining value of private startup Big Switch. Our

VMWorld, for those of you not in the know, is where ever-powerful virtualization technology company VMware (VMW) shows off its stuff, along with many partners (and many parties). This

Many veterans of the networking technology market will recognize the name Jonathan Reeves. A long-time entrepreneur with engineering roots dating back to General Datacomm in the early 1990s, Reeves

Interview: OpenDaylight's David Meyer — After 'Breaking Dawn'

There's this thing called Software Defined Networking (SDN) generating quite a lot of noise in the networking technology market right now. PR and marketing people love new buzzwords and

A big theme of the Rayno Report is innovation in the connected world. That is, how do our network connections create value. We have seen this over time with

Christos Kolias (Orange) describes motivations behind network functions virtualization (NFV) & how ETSI will be bringing the concept to life.

SDN Thought Leaders You Should Read About This Weekend

SDxCentral Exclusive: SDN Market Size Expected to Reach $35B by 2018

Colt's Javier Benitez and Nicolas Fischbach share their real-world deployments of NFV and SDN at a service provider today and discuss future plans.

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Here are highlights from the panel at Churchill Club where SDxCentral's Craig Matsumoto posed a series of questions to the panel around SDN,