With The Linux Foundation taking charge of Open vSwitch, a new future for the open source project takes shape.

Hardware acceleration can boost adoption of network function virtualization (NFV) technology by providing a more powerful platform.

With higher traffic demands on the S/Gi-LAN in mobile networks, converged platforms will help reduce the costs of processing IP traffic.

Network virtualization (NV) is starting to blur the lines between the LAN and the WAN.

Edsall discusses what 'application-centric' really means and how webscale players change the industry.

With higher traffic demands on the SGi/Gi-LAN in mobile networks, the move towards converged platforms enables increased efficiency in processing IP traffic.

Neutron networking open-source options are expanding for OpenStack, but users are still relying heavily on proprietary network virtualization solutions.

It's the “write once, run many” principle.

Armed with partners, Cumulus still aims to change the networking world.

Every six months or so, the OpenStack community seems to swing between euphoria and despair – depending on the amount of progress being made in deploying OpenStack in production

SDxCentral contributing analyst, Lee Doyle, takes a look at how service providers are building on the business benefits for NFV and the full list of factors involved.

In the past few years, as the SDN and NV market have evolved from PowerPoint concepts to working products, the market has matured into a multibillion-dollar business.

Business Agility Drives Network Virtualization Demand

The GEN15 event showed service providers at a crossroads with SDN and NFV.

Prediction: Eventually, they will.

Huge bets by AT&T and Verizon don't point to a happy ending for equipment suppliers.

In March, The Rayno Report told you about an exciting new market developing for service-provider software called Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO). We projected the total opportunity for LSO technologies

This week, the Rayno Report hosted another social chat on the rise of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology in service-provider networks, referred to on Twitter as #carrierSDN. The goal

Verizon today announced its long-awaited Software Defined Network (SDN) strategy, which includes almost all of its incumbent equipment suppliers but lacks details about how this strategy will be executed.

It's happening! Two large organizations supporting service-provider technology efforts, the MEF and the TM Forum, have agreed to collaborate on programs to push new technology for orchestrating and coordinating

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is gaining traction in mobile networks, and mobile infrastructure startup Affirmed Networks is emerging as one of the leaders.

There's been a lot of chatter about potential consolidation in the optical sector. Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) is getting the ball rolling by buying Swedish metro optical firm Transmode (ST:

Optical networking company Infinera (Nasdaq: INFI) announced that social-networking giant Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has deployed its technology to build what it calls the "longest terrestrial optical network route," which

Network as a Service (NaaS) provider Aryaka announced this morning that it has closed $16 million in funding, led by Nexus Venture Partners and joined by existing investors Trinity