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

The Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) runs next week in Los Angeles, and some Wall Street analysts are looking forward to some peppy activity among the optical networking names, including

Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I launched The Rayno Report's latest premium research report on Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), a developing market we project to be

Do you think things will be normal, predictable, and easy to analyze in the communications technology market in 2015? Well then you are some kind of genius.

Networking technology firm Cyan (NYSE: CYNI) today announced a deal with Little Rock, Ark.-based communications provider Windstream for a new 100 Gigabit (G) metro networking infrastructure focused on carrying

Riverbed Technology Inc. (RVBD), which earlier in the year fell prey to activist investor Elliott Management Corp., has agreed to be acquired for $3.6 billion by private-equity firm Thoma

Networking technology provider Ciena (CIEN) reported a fourth quarter 2014 loss of 16 cents per share on Thursday night, but its shares responded positively, with much of the bad

In filing a major lawsuit against rival networking technology company Arista Networks (ANET) on Friday, Cisco (CSCO) has done some initial damage in what is likely to be a

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) today announced that it is suing Arista Networks Inc. (ANET), the data-center switching company that was founded by Cisco alumni and recently went public.

Pluribus has released the next iteration of its network virtualization software, Netvisor 2.2, as well as results from the Securities Technologies Analysis Center (STAC) benchmark associated with one of

Part two of the Open Network Ecosystem Series focuses on how open ecosystems are growing in software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).

Washington D.C. -- Guess what: One of the pioneers and inventors of Ethernet technology, Bob Metcalfe, believes that Net Neutrality and the regulation of the Internet is a colossal