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.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO -- This week I spent some time at Oracle World, marveling at the vast Oracle empire, sipping cappuccino next to the Oracle America's Cup yacht, and watching

Communications equipment suppliers are ready to report on the second quarter. Earnings in the next few quarters will be interesting to watch with major shifts occurring in telecom spending,

Facebook's new "Wedge" platform is the chatter of the networking world. Why is that? It encapsulates the new genre of powerful, open networking platforms, including Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Bethany Mayer discusses HP's new NFV obsession, how the company is already making money on NFV, and why OpenDaylight is suddenly a bigger priority.

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

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,

The Heartbleed vulnerability has implications for some foundational SDN components. More importantly, it reminds us of the risks behind the big-picture re-imagining that comes with SDN.

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

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

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

What would it take for Quagga to flourish? The open-source routing stack fuels the success of some very large service providers and Web properties — most of which aren't

From Mobile World Congress, a chat with Sanqi Li, CTO of the carrier network business group, about the scaling challenges of SDN, the motivations for NFV at the edge,

You can't throw a stone on the Internet without hitting some big data. But what's interesting about big data, and its cousin, analytics, is that the technology has hundreds

SDN and NFV Technology Trends to Watch in 2014

Check out our latest interview in our NFV Interview Series. We're speaking with Wes George of Time Warner Cable about how SDN and NFV fit into a cable MSO's

From the development of NFV to the formation of the OpenDaylight Project, 2013 was a busy year for the SDN world, making for some pretty good interview fodder. Here

Now that everyone in the US has recovered from their Thanksgiving dinners--and hopefully worked all those extra calories off--we're announcing winners of our Turkeys of SDN competition. Read on

With the Thanksgiving season upon us here in the United States, we thought it might be a good time to run a fun little competition at SDNCentral on the

In joining the OpenDaylight Project as its first executive director, Neela Jacques got to hear a lot — a whole lot — about why the open-source SDN effort is

Check out our latest interview in our NFV Interview Series! This time, we get the MSO perspective on SDN and NFV as we chat with Chris Donley, Director, Advanced

Holy mother of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Are people really such big suckers? Are they that naive? Yesterday, AT&T and Cisco jumped on the marketing bandwagon to pile on

Many veterans of the networking technology market will recognize the name Jonathan Reeves. A long-time entrepreneur with engineering roots dating back to General Datacomm in the early 1990s, Reeves