Tell me if this has ever happened to you: Your work in some large inter-galactic corporate empire. The CEO, who has a Ph.D. from MIT and advanced degrees from

Cisco shares tanked 10% in after-hours trading on Wednesday following an earnings call in which it announced only 2% year-over-year growth and issued a profit warning going forward.

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

As Rayno Report has been reporting, the optical stocks have been on a nice little rollar coaster recently, selling off viciously after what was a pretty spectacular run boosted

Stealthy data startup Jut announced last week it has secured $20 million in series B financing. This is an interesting company to watch with an experienced management and investment

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

This is going to be fun. Arista, the current wunderkind of networking technology in Silicon Valley, on Monday launched a series of high-powered data-center switches. It also drafted a

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

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

F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV) had some good news for investors this morning, as it announced results that beat analyst expectations. The company also raised guidance going forward. In pre-market

Virtualization software specialist VMware (VMW) reported a solid Q3 on Monday night, boosted by strong growth in new enterprise license agreements (ELA), including the biggest deal in its history

I have a confession to make. I've become enamored with mobile telecoms plays in the adventurous regions of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They've got it all: Steady

In a merger of intriguing startup names, Los Angeles, Calif.-based Airpush is buying Hubbl. Let me first offer some intriguing merger name possibilities such as Hubblpush, AirHubbl, Airbbl, e.t.c.

Optical networking technology, once the land of bubbles and crashes, is looking more and more like a steady growth market these days (knock on wood now).

AOL is looking for a faster exit out of the headache known as Patch, its localized news service, say sources familiar with the company's thinking. AOL is looking at

Firespotter Labs has shifted from developing apps for the restaurant industry to helping business communicators. Call it a food-to-phone transition.

Reuters has started this Cisco-or-Google-buying-Blackberry rumor in a sad attempt to make the Blackberry price go up.

Barracuda Networks, a network security provider, has filed for an initial public offering of up to $100 million, according to SEC documents filed on Tuesday.

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

Speaking with CloudPhysics Founder and CEO John Blumenthal, you get the sense that the modern data center, which supplies all that cloud-computing power, is a total mess.

Did you hear Apple's iOS 7 is out? This is how I heard: I picked up a kid at school today. There across from the school I was told

SAN FRANCISCO -- Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi, the former Cisco Systems executive who is now a venture partner with Index Ventures, sat across from me in the comfy chairs of

Do people at sports stadiums actually watch the game anymore? Connectivity and social networking is becoming a more integral part of the live sports experience, and stadium owners and

Verizon's $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's Verizon Wireless stake last week marked the biggest deal in communications history. What's even more interesting is the biggest bond financing in corporate