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

What would it take for Quagga to flourish? The open-source routing stack fuels the success of some very large service providers and Web properties — most of which aren't

Looks like AT&T is getting serious with what it calls "Domain 2.0," its new software-defined architecture for deploying new hardware, software and services. Today it announced its first list

Shares of optical networking equipment maker Infinera (INFN) have enjoyed a wild ride of late, first collapsing on the speculation that it had lost big 100G optical contract with

There's been a crazy media circus around NFL football player Richard Sherman, which culminated with the Seattle Seahawks cornerback on national TV describing ESPN's Skip Bayless as a "cretin"

In looking for a "Big Themes" to latch on to for 2014, I keep coming back to open source -- and what it means for just about every industry.

You would think it's just a sleepy Monday before New Year's Eve, but for large networking technology vendors worrying about their Software Defined Networking (SDN) strategy, it may not

From the development of NFV to the formation of the OpenDaylight Project, 2013 was a busy year for the SDN world, making for some pretty good interview fodder. Here

What can a Cisco investor do? Wait, and hope the stock stops dropping. The stock, now in a bad downtrend, dropped again this week both before and after Cisco

Continuing the strong trend of a volatile and aggressively traded optical sector, optical-networking component maker Finisar raised eyebrows with a second-quarter fiscal year earnings release that beat estimates and

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