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

The Rayno Report held another one of our social events on CrowdChat, LinkedIn, and Twitter on July 27. The topic was #NFV, or Network Functions Virtualization. The event covered

Plexxi Inc., a Nashua, N.H.-based startup that is building a Software Defined Networking (SDN) optical switch, is back in the spotlight with the release of a new product, the

Last week Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) announced it is buying OpenDNS for the healthy price tag of $625 million. It's nice if you can get it. The deal shows Cisco

Amazon and Microsoft's Azure are the clear leaders in offering cloud services to enterprises, according to the results of a customer survey released by investment bank Cowen and Company.

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) startup Pica8 has won a deal to supply white-box switches to build the network fabric at the TouIX Internet exchange, based in Toulouse, France. The Pica8

Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) founder and CEO Jayshree Ullal has been selling Arista shares at a ferocious pace over the last six months, dumping about $60 million worth of

Silver Peak Systems, which has been known primarily as a Wide-Area Network (WAN) optimization player over the past few years, is adding Software-Defined WAN technology to its portfolio with

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) startup Viptela has landed Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) as a customer, where Viptela's technology will be used to deliver the Singtel ConnectPlus SD-WAN service.

This week in San Francisco, Apple is running its Worldwide Developers Conference, which affords it even more ways to hog the technology news cycle by announcing many new tech

Airvana, long-time provider of mobile technology, is using Cloud RAN (C-RAN) mobile technology for small cells to provide a higher bandwidth 4G connection and more reliable wireless coverage in

Apple Inc. is building its own high-speed network to deliver higher performance for its cloud services and may start using white-box switches, according to Bloomberg.

You may be wondering about the viability of the market to support the 150 OpenStack technology startups. Well, there at least appears to be an exit strategy.

There has been a bevy of communications-chip merger activity that makes this sleepy technology sector look like a Kardashian party in Beverly Hills. What's behind it? Is easy money

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

Scrappy, Dublin-based startup UBIqube has landed a nice research-and-development gig in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has picked UBIqube’s MSActivator Framework as a technology for

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

BOSTON -- NEC's Netcracker division today released an upgrade of its telecom software suite, Netcracker 10, which is tackling the evolving convergence of Operations Support Systems (OSS), Billing Support

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 optical equipment consolidation predicted by many is continuing, as key optical players reposition themselves for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and growth in the data center. This week's big

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

I've been banging the table about how network security is the hottest application for Software Defined Networking (SDN). This week, Big Switch Networks confirms this trend with the release

After years of anticipation, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers has finally announced his retirement. Cisco's Board of Directors today appointed long-time Cisco executive Chuck Robbins as the company's