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.

It's going to be a robust year for 2015, but not an entirely rosy one. Check out Roy Chua's 2015 predictions for NFV, service providers, and the enterprise.

Networking is on the verge of big changes in Palo Alto Networks' favor, co-founder Nir Zuk says in this discussion about firewall virtualization, cloud security, and the future of

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

It has not been a great earnings season for the networking hardware equipment makers, especially those in the service provider segment. All through the food chain, from chips to

Awards programs are usually a lot of work and a lot of fun. More importantly though, you can gain a lot of insight looking over dozens of awards entries.

Have you stayed awake late at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering, "What is Facebook's Wedge technology, and what does it mean?"

This week is the week of VMworld, VWware's conference baby, the show where the world gathers to see the future of data center and virtualization technologies. I wasn't able

The Broncos might not have done so well on Sunday, but Extreme Networks had a good Super Bowl. The networking vendor has rolled out its analytics platform in partnership

Well, the Insieme Networks folks have been payed off. The startup showed just how important it was, as Cisco announced today that was aquiring Insieme for $860 million as

Another week in the market, another day for hysterical counter-reactions to previous irrational exuberance. Yes, I'm talking about optical stocks.

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Returned from CES last week. Slept for a couple days. Woke up. Tried to remember something that will change the world. Couldn't think of anything.

Tech earnings reports are rolling in like Budeweisers in a NASCAR infield, and we've got it covered. What's striking is the range of results, from earnings bombs like Netflix,

The Tesla Motors IPO is the talk of the town today, but to me it is a bad flashback to the poor IPO practices of the 1990s. The electric

Tech blog Gizmodo has acknowledged paying for the acquisition of prototype next-generation iPhone that was allegedly "found in a bar" in Redwood City (oohhh, what was the Apple employee

Who knew? The IPO market is doing well. Despite a glum market day featuring extreme weakness in bonds and a lackluster stock market, three companies went public today with

Kind of a slow day in the news, eh? That's probably because after the Fed announced it will continue its free money for Wall Street policy indefinitely, there was

Parsing today's news, I see that Twitter has announced a new platform that does some stuff. I wish I could tell you what it was, but the press reports

A big focus at CES in Las Vegas this week is on the growing smartphone wars, as a number of mobile manufacturers gear up to battle the dominance of