About 13 years ago I received a tip from some Silicon Valley insiders that I should check out this "hot" new startup, Timetra, which was blazing new trails in

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) hit a new eight-year high, vaulting $2.30 (8%) in morning trading to $29.23, on a combination of positive factors during last night's

The way this Net Neutrality debate stirs up the Internet zealots, you would think that the U.S. Constitution has an article that says: "Ye should all have a right

This week the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States met on interest-rate policy and decided it will be very careful about raising rates. You may ask what this

UBIqube, a Dublin, Ireland-based startup focusing on orchestration software for the telecom industry, has quietly landed a deal with Japanese service provider giant NTT Group (NYSE: NTT). NTT will

The Cloud WAN market is coming to a branch office near you, and it's going to shake up the way enterprise access gear and services is sold for many

Is it time to take a look at shares of Super Micro Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI)? The stock of the data-center infrastructure provider took a hit after the company announced

Pluribus announced today that it has landed a substantial Series D funding round of $50M led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek and including Ericsson as a strategic investor.

Cisco CEO John Chambers may be having his Steve Ballmer moment. The situations are analagous. Steve Ballmer, the Co-Founder and fomer CEO of Microsoft, stubbornly stuck around Microsoft long

The rumor mills are alive with word that Verizon is considering a joint venture or outright acquisition of AOL.

Do you think things will be normal, predictable, and easy to analyze in the communications technology market in 2015? Well then you are some kind of genius.

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.

It's time to serve up year-in-review content appetizers for your New Year's Eve party. So break out the bubbly and read up on some of our favorite topics: Software

The U.S. Initial Public Offering (IPO) market set a 14-year high with 273 IPOs, the most since 2000 when 406 companies went public, according to IPO research specialist Renaissance

Networking technology firm Cyan (NYSE: CYNI) today announced a deal with Little Rock, Ark.-based communications provider Windstream for a new 100 Gigabit (G) metro networking infrastructure focused on carrying

Steve Herrod is a pioneer in cloud computing and virtualization. He's probably best known as the former Senior Vice President of Research and Development at VMware, the fast-growing virtualization

Networking technology provider Ciena (CIEN) reported a fourth quarter 2014 loss of 16 cents per share on Thursday night, but its shares responded positively, with much of the bad

Networking technology provider Ciena (CIEN) is looking to step up the development of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market with the introduction of Agility Matrix, a broad platform for

As my monthly communcations bills start to approach my mortgage payments, I was wondering whether I was the only one that had this unique financial problem. Apparently not. Spending

Part two of the Open Network Ecosystem Series focuses on how open ecosystems are growing in software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).

As you may know, sustainability is emerging as a key component of cloud technology and data centers. Whether it's Facebook, Amazon, or BMW, companies are in search of more

Washington D.C. -- Wedge Networks, a cloud security startup based in Calgary, Alberta, this week launched Cloud Network Defense, a cloud-based security platform that uses deep packet inspection (DPI)

Washington D.C. -- Guess what: One of the pioneers and inventors of Ethernet technology, Bob Metcalfe, believes that Net Neutrality and the regulation of the Internet is a colossal

Companies that want to be leaders in SDN/NFV need to focus on building partner ecosystems, and the industry as a whole needs companies to step up and fill that