The combination of new network hardware acceleration techniques and SDN is driving a new era of networking.

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

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

The P4 language is one of several new chip technologies emerging to boost performance in NFV and bring it up to the high standards of service provider networks.

High hopes about for network automation, but what's realistic?

Learn about the attributes of virtual security: micro-segmentation, visibility, and Programmatic Policy Enforcement with this article.

These are the toughest operational challenges an IT managers should watch out for in the shift to network virtualization.

What do you need to do to make sure your data center is ready for today's security challenges?

This week in San Francisco, Apple is running its Worldwide Developers Conference, which affords it even more ways to hog the technology news cycle by announcing many new tech

Scrappy, Dublin-based startup UBIqube has landed a nice research-and-development gig in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has picked UBIqube’s MSActivator Framework as a technology for

Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion. The offer of $50 per share represents a premium of 17.4 percent on AOL's Monday close of $42.59. The deal has been

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

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

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,

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

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

Colt's Javier Benitez and Nicolas Fischbach share their real-world deployments of NFV and SDN at a service provider today and discuss future plans.

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

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

Soft Switching in Erlang – Interview with Stu Bailey of Infoblox

RouteFlow - Replacing Cisco Routers? Interview with Christian Esteve Rothenberg of CPqD