“Our chip enables other cloud vendors to compete against Amazon in a much better way,” Pensando CEO Prem Jain said.

“We believe this is another proof point of the growing presence of open networking and SDN in the market,” said Dell EMC’s Drew Schulke.

The company raised $35 million in Series C funding that was led by Goldman Sachs, which is one of the company's most prolific customers.

A company executive explained that its ability to launch a greenfield network near the beginning of a technology cycle provides the carrier with a significant advantage against its rivals.

Karen Walker joined Intel as SVP and CMO; Equinix welcomed Justin Dustzadeh as CTO; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

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The trial with network partner Calix used SDN to bond four multi-gig fiber optic channels.

The startup says “five of the top five” cloud and colocation service providers are testing its Luxon software-defined interconnect platform.

The security unicorn says its technology is more effective than other SDN or hypervisor-based segmentation like Cisco ACI with Tetration and VMware’s NSX.

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.