Alcatel-Lucent today introduced its Network Services Platform (NSP), a Software Defined Networking (SDN) provisioning and control system that automatically manages and balances bandwidth and network services over several different

BOSTON -- NEC's Netcracker division today released an upgrade of its telecom software suite, Netcracker 10, which is tackling the evolving convergence of Operations Support Systems (OSS), Billing Support

The optical equipment consolidation predicted by many is continuing, as key optical players reposition themselves for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and growth in the data center. This week's big

The Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) players are tanking up for what is likely to be an epic fight. CloudGenix today announced that it has closed $25 million in Series

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.

As the shares of cybersecurity companies zoom to new heights, there may be good reason: The topic of information and network security remains the number one issue for customers

TIBURON, Calif. — Not surprisingly, a VMware technology executive says that container technology is not a threat to VMware's virtual machine (VM) franchise, because customers are going to use

Martin Taylor, the Chief Technical Officer of Metaswitch Networks, has been working in software protocols and networking for more than 20 years. He joined Metaswitch in 2004 after pioneering

(Warning: Disturbing and potentially offensive analysis of the telco hardware business ahead -- spanning four entire pages! Sedatives or perhaps stimulants may be needed, depending on whom you work

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

Illumio today announced it has raised a $100 million investment round from big-name investors to pursue its security solutions for virtualized environments.

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:

The white-box world is growing in influence, so it's time to learn about what applications and use cases can take it to the next level. We'll be covering this

Security is emerging as one of Software Defined Networking's most important applications. In fact, it has the potential to combat the surging threat of cyber attacks on cloud services.

The Rayno Report held another one of our social events on CrowdChat, LinkedIn, and Twitter on March 24. The topic was #sdwan, or Software-defined WAN (SD WAN). The event

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 open-source craze continues. Cyanogen Inc., a company that builds an open-source flavor of the Android operating system (OS), has announced that it has raised $80 million in Series

The race to provide efficient and secure access to cloud apps continues. Google has approved Global Capacity as a Google Cloud Interconnect provider, expanding the number of operators that

The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) drumbeat continues. CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and Cyan (Nasdaq: CYNI) today announced that CenturyLink will use Cyan’s Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator to deliver NFV services

BARCELONA -- Mobile World Congress (MWC) -- Yes, 2015 will be a big year for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technology. Large global service providers are beginning to deploy revenue-driving

On February 25, the Rayno Report held another one of our riveting social chats streaming live on CrowdChat and Twitter. This one was on the topic of #whitebox. With

This week, private co-location and cloud services provider 365 Data Centers announced 2014 milestones that included double-digit and record quarterly sales growth, reflecting the strong demand in the Tier-2

Whitebox networking is all the rage. HP (NYSE: HPQ) last week announced it was teaming with Cumulus to deliver whiteboxes. And Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) recently explained on a conference

"Webscale" cloud providers and the data-center market are all the rage for optical technology vendors these days. Ciena today announced two new chipsets targeting growth in these markets.