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

Here's a company to watch: Goodman Networks. Yesterday the wireless network builder announced it is buying Design Build Technologies, a wireless construction company that builds and maintains communications towers

Long-time communications tech entrepreneur Cheng Wu wants to help the telecom industry with a makeover. His company, Azuki Systems, is looking to turn the telecomms into media moguls using

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

Cisco just pulled off the biggest deal since its blockbuster acquisition of NDS for $5B in 2012, buying publicly traded SourceFire (FIRE) for $2.7B. The move is an interesting

Good know all the money being pumped into mobile devices is going somewhere. Verizon Communications (VZ) reported a solid second quarter with a profit of 73 cents per share

AT&T on Friday announced it's buying independent carrier Leap Wireless Inc. (LEAP) for about $1.2 billion in a bid to scale up in its battle against goliath rival Verizon.Leap's

I'm back in publisher mode, in the early stages of an overhaul of this website, The Rayno Report. This has led me to look at advertising and sponsorship strategies,

If you want to look at a hot networking space, take a look at the developments in WiFi at large mobile operators. Recently in my role as Event Director

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

State of Software-Defined Networking 2013 From Telecom Service Provider Forum

The State of OpenFlow in Japan - An Interview with Dr. Suguru Yamaguchi

SDNCentral's Top 5 Interviews

How OpenFlow Based SDN can Increase Network Security

SDN and Optical Transport: Strange Bedfellows or BFFs? Ping Pan of Infinera Shares His Views

MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB): The Revolution of Software Defined Networks

NOX, POX and Controllers Galore - Murphy McCauley Interview

Interview with Jayshree Ullal of Arista Networks on Network Virtualization and SDN

Interview with Phil Porras: Lack of Secure Controller Hurting OpenFlow?

Chat with ONRC/ON.Lab on creating an SDN Open Source Powerhouse

Another day, another deal. Intel has agreed to buy security software firm McAfee for $7.68 billion (Wall Street Journal). That's $48 per share, or a 60% premium to Wednesday's

It's Friday, so rather than do any real work, I've been soaking in the news, networking, and catching up on all the gossip surrounding the developing sale of Slide

The bandwagon story of the day is Google looking into creating a "Facebook competitor" by talking with popular online gaming companies (Wall Street Journal). That's funny, I thought Facebook

One of the themes we've been following here is the buildout in more telecom connectivity -- whether it be Ethernet connections or all those data connections to mobile-phone towers