Please, Mister Regulator Man, let's not let the AT&T and DirectTV deal happen. I hever want to buy my TV service from the phone company.

We believe that in order to fully reap the benefits of the technology, organizations have to address the issue of NFV performance.

How will we get to net neutrality? Lots of lawyers.

Nothing warms the souls of technology enthusiasts like a bunch of dark suits in Washington D.C. marching in to take control of the Internet. As the Federal Communications Commission

Relatively easy year-on-year comparison numbers and expanding gross margins helped Cisco deliver a respectable earnings quarter, suprising analysts and lifting the stock 8% in morning trading.

The buzz of the morning is Apple is considering Buying Beats, the fashion-driven headphones company founded by producer and rap artist Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine. And

It's fun watching large techno-conglomerates spin "open source" technology, the free code that could kill them. That's why Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) announcement yesterday that it would invest $1B into cloud

The race to combine powerful hardware and Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology continues, as startup Pluribus Networks and the $1B+ server intergrator Super Micro Computer Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI) today

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,

Telecom turnaround artist John Scanlon is back, this time as the CEO of 365 Data Centers, which re-launched today with a new corporate identiy and a focus on the

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

Cumulus Networks is emerging as one of hottest Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups with a valuation recently estimated in the $300 million range, according to research by the Rayno

I have been digging into Paul Kapustka's excellent Stadium Tech Report, which gives you the lowdown on how U.S sports stadiums are getting connected via wireless technologies such as

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

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.

There is a growing debate of whether or not there is a new tech bubble. Generally that indicates there is a new tech bubble forming.

There's a downside to all of that big data, social media, and Netflix downloading: Energy and carbon. Data centers are massive consumers of energy, which is a huge component

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

I just spent about two hours cleaning up my social-media process and re-organizing a number of accounts, including some Twitter handles, a G+ account, Hootsuite, and some email accounts.

After years of practicing Stuart Smalley-type self-affirmations, the optical industry is feeling better about itself again. With the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) under way in San Francisco, optimistic reports

I'm back from Open Networking Summit (ONS), where I was briefed by many companies, did some television with the classy guys over at SiliconANGLE and theCUBE, and heard many

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