Supporting a family of five, I continue to suffer from mobile-phone sticker shock. The cost of supplying my family with devices, data plans, and services is climbing close to

This week, the Rayno Report hosted another social chat on the rise of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology in service-provider networks, referred to on Twitter as #carrierSDN. The goal

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

Last night was the last call -- the last quarterly earnings call for Cisco CEO John Chambers. His legacy on Wall Street will be a masterful management of earnings

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

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

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

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

BARCELONA -- Mobile World Congress (MWC) -- The world's largest mobile technology show is chock-full of gadgets, mobile operators, and buzzwords: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), small

Here it is, the vaunted Net Neutrality. More specifically, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to declare Internet broadband a Title II services, bringing it under the umbrella

"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.

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

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

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.

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

Networking technology provider Infinera (INFN) today announced that it is shipping its Cloud Xpress product, a small optical networking platform targeted at datacenter connectivity. Cloud Express is part of

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

Metro Ethernet Forum president Nan Chen explains the "Third Network" NaaS strategy, why life-cycle service orchestration (LSO) is so crucial to it, and what's good about eating your young.

F5 veteran Karl Triebes gives a wide-ranging interview on the biggest network security threats of the moment, and the evolving approaches to combatting them.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Verizon is working on a large trial of "white boxes" that use commodity server technology to deliver next-generation networking and telecom services, according to several sources.

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

AT&T's capex announcement is still sending ripples through the networking hardware business. Let's face it, right now it's a telco bloodbath for equipment providers. As we noted on Friday,

The Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement has a few core leaders that have been around since it sprouted from the grass-roots academic environments of Stanford University and Berkeley, where

In a move to extend the reach and penetration of its Blue Planet management platform, optical networking vendor Cyan Inc. (CYNI) has added support for Cisco and Juniper routers.