VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger thinks IBM paid too much for Red Hat at $34 billion. Meanwhile VMware paid $2.8 billion for Pivotal, and “I have better assets.”

Comcast today said it deployed Trellis, the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) open source SDN fabric, in “multiple markets.”

Operators moving to virtualized architectures can save 40% in capex, according to a study by Arthur D. Little, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica.

A tier-one operator deployed Trellis, an open source SDN-based platform, said AT&T’s Andre Fuetsch during an ONF Connect keynote. He didn’t name the operator.

The carrier's network virtualization journey reached a landmark this week with 75% of data running through MPLS tunnels now under SDN control.

The company said AIOps has the potential to significantly reduce downtime, enable faster fault recovery, and reduce the time to resolution for troubleshooting.

Stratum is a silicon-independent switch operating system for SDN that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms.

The companies are collaborating to support operators as they combine VNFs, SDN, and 5G in ONAP.

The deal calls for the delivery of advanced SDN and some network application management.

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McElfresh will replace John Donovan, who abruptly announced last week that he would be leaving the company effective Oct. 1.

IBM and Orange Business Services top the list of U.K. SDN vendors, according to an ISG report that evaluated 51 providers.

The smartest networking minds converge on VMware's Future:Net. Among them is Albert Greenberg, corporate VP at Microsoft Azure Networking.

Mellanox today introduced a pair of SmartNICs for data center servers and storage systems at VMworld that boast improvements in security, performance, and efficiency for any workload.

The latest version of the Apstra Operating System (AOS) integrates with software-defined overlay networks including VMware NSX.

Donovan's departure follows a busy summer where he played a key role in landing major deals with Microsoft and IBM to advance AT&T’s push into the cloud.

Big Switch says its software-defined networking products are “ideally suited” for cloud providers’ on-premises plays such as AWS Outposts.

MEF unveiled the first standardized definition for SD-WAN. The the definition stands to help to accelerate the SD-WAN market, and improve customer service.

The jClarity team has been a contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project that helps users build binaries of OpenJDK for platforms like Linux and Windows.

Adtran upgraded its Mosaic software-defined access suite with new features aimed at improving network visibility into the home with WiFi analytics and equipment monitoring from SmartRG.

Pureport’s SDN-based platform with its layer 3 connections to public clouds “sits between the lanes of a cloud on ramp and an SD-WAN vendor,” says VP Gary McAuliffe.

5G opens the window for Cisco, Juniper, and VMware; Splunk killers unite; and VMware tops SDN revenues.

Dish Network's vision for a completely software-defined network using virtualized network functions and equipment and software from less traditional vendors is relatively unproven.

Software-Defined Interconnect (SDI) allows Verizon customers to connect their private networks to an Equinix data center via API.