In a move that demonstrates the growing urgency for traditional networking technology vendors to adopt open approaches to Software Defined Networking (SDN), Extreme Networks (EXTR) has joined the Open

Net neutrality has always been gray to me, not black or white. Wired points this out in a nice article making the rounds today.

If there was any doubt that there's a rush to acquire SDN startups, this morning it's been confirmed. Cisco Systems (CSCO) has announced its intent to acquire Tail-f Systems,

Ciena (CIEN) shares vaulted nearly 20 percent in trading Thursday after the company released earnings that surprised analyst expectations and the company raised its earnings guidance for the year.

Sources on the Wall Street IPO desks expect Arista Networks shares to pop a bit on its IPO, which is now expected tomorrow, Friday, June 6. Arista's last price

With the Arista IPO imminent, one might be wondering what's happening with the next crop off networking vendors. The valuations of many startups the Software Defined Networking (SDN) market

Is AT&T entering some kind of new capital spending (capex) winter, just as summer's getting started? That's the current panic attack circulating through Wall Street.

Another locally driven gigabit (Gbit/s) broadband Ethernet installation shows the growing thirst for big bandwidth in business communities across America.

The Rayno Report has released its first premium report, "The Software Defined Network Revolution: An Ecosystem Report," which details how innovation in Software Defined Networking (SDN) will reshuffle billions

We believe that in order to fully reap the benefits of the technology, organizations have to address the issue of NFV performance.

How will we get to net neutrality? Lots of lawyers.

You may already know this, but Netflix (NFLX) and Google's YouTube are eating all the Internet bandwidth. That's the conclusion in the latest Global Internet Phenomena Report from Canadian

Roy and I often are asked that the killer NFV application is, or which app will be the first to mass deployment. Virtual firewalls (vFWs) are catching our attention,

The plot thickens. Software Defined Networking (SDN) startup Big Switch today announced a strategic partnership Dell, in which Dell will add Big Switch software to the list of installed

The Heartbleed vulnerability has implications for some foundational SDN components. More importantly, it reminds us of the risks behind the big-picture re-imagining that comes with SDN.

Today AT&T announced it is in "advanced discussions" with the North Carolina Next Generation Network (NCNGN) to bring gigabit-speed fiber connections to communities in that state, potentially accelerating the

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

Bernard Daines, a pioneering networking enterpreneur who helped expand the Ethernet maket in the 1990s, died today at age 69.

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.

Everybody in the telecom markets is watching China Mobile (CHL), and that's part of the problem. Yesterday, China Mobile said it will increase capital spending by 22%, with a

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

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit -- Vinod Khosla, a former Sun Micrososystems founder and Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures, dusted off a presentation from the optical bubble-era

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