The exciting part of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is that it has the potential to shake up the current networking technology system and be revolutionary, not just evolutionary. One

Is AT&T entering some kind of new capital spending (capex) winter, just as summer's getting started? That's the current panic attack circulating through Wall Street.

Another locally driven gigabit (Gbit/s) broadband Ethernet installation shows the growing thirst for big bandwidth in business communities across America.

The pedigree and revenue growth of Arista Networks, which in recent years has become one of the leading data switching companies to compete with rival Cisco Systems (CSCO), is

The Rayno Report has released its first premium report, "The Software Defined Network Revolution: An Ecosystem Report," which details how innovation in Software Defined Networking (SDN) will reshuffle billions

The media and investors prematurely panicked last night when Hewlett-Packard's (HP) results included an operational gaffe (releasing the results while the market was still open), and the news that

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.

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.

You may already know this, but Netflix (NFLX) and Google's YouTube are eating all the Internet bandwidth. That's the conclusion in the latest Global Internet Phenomena Report from Canadian

I've lapsed on the Buzzword Friday feature, so it's time to resume it. Today's buzzword, or to be more correct, buzzphrase, is: "The Buyer's Journey."This one has taken over

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

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

Today AT&T announced it is in "advanced discussions" with the North Carolina Next Generation Network (NCNGN) to bring gigabit-speed fiber connections to communities in that state, potentially accelerating the

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

Bernard Daines, a pioneering networking enterpreneur who helped expand the Ethernet maket in the 1990s, died today at age 69.

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

A stealthy Chinese app developer -- funded entirely by a former American commercial real estate developer -- is expected to file for an $1B IPO in the next few