Who are the winners and losers when it comes to mindshare in the SDN and NFV market? New research from Argus Insights looks at how customers are talking about

Broadband Forum vet Heather Kirksey signs on with OPNFV, where she'll have to reconcile open source methods with carrier-grade specs.

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reacts to Google's reported mobile service play, saying the move rebuts the need for 'extreme and risky' Title II.

In this SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup -- Citrix acquired Sanbolic and speculation about what company might be next, EMC restructures RSA.

Cyan gets a boost, Fibre Channel gets a reprieve, Sonus gets some SDN tech — and our own site gets a name change, to SDxCentral.

Marc Cohn reflects on the progress of NFV in 2014 with the voices of leadership from both the ETSI NFV ISG, and OPNFV group. Find out what 2015 may

This year marked the 2nd anniversary of NFV. For the beginners, what have they missed this year? Check out this list of SDNCentral's NFV "where to start" stories of

Carriers have to worry about developers bolting for the likes of Google and Facebook. Now they might have to worry about oil and gas companies, too

It's time for telecom network providers to move to the "Burger King" model – as in, "Have it your way." Here's why Burger King's model is so important.

How Google & OpenConfig Plan to Model the Whole Network

OSS doesn't just stand for 'open-source software.' It's also the acronym for proprietary, complex software that runs a telecom network — software that the Metro Ethernet Forum hopes to

This week in the SDxCentral Weekly Roundup: ODL welcomes new members, PLUMgrid makes announcements during OpenStack Summit, Brocade and Pica8 bring in new talent.

Q3 revenues drop as service provider capex lags, and that means Juniper will slim down even more

Charlie Ashton outlines the pros and cons of the most common virtual switching solutions. Find out if it's possible to meet aggressive performance targets without compromising on critical system-level

Far from being a standards body, the OPNFV effort will be enlisting open source groups to help nurture NFV — a job that will need a diplomatic touch.

This week in SDN and NFV news: Facebook announced its testing for open Wedge switch design, while Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens resigns, and the SDN-related sales slowdown might

The Linux Foundation, a possible new ETSI effort, the ExperiaSphere experiment from analyst Tom Nolle — NFV continues to move quickly, with major changes afoot as the discussion turns

Telecom equipment vendors' chances of getting acquired are on the rise, according to Goldman Sachs. Among the companies with a raised M&A rating from the firm: Juniper, Ciena, and

NFV and OpenStack were big topics at the Big Telecom Event, and that was reflected in the news announcements and demos at the show. Here are snippets from Huawei,

In acquiring Tail-f for $175M, Cisco says it's gaining some multivendor support for NFV provisioning — and Cisco says it's serious about the 'multivendor' aspect. Even so, customers might

NFV needs to be done right if it's to be the fuel for some major telecom changes, says Axel Clauberg of DT. Speaking at the Big Telecom Event, he

Cyan Extends Blue Planet into NFV Orchestration

John Chambers' speculated retirement from Cisco leads this week's news roundup ... also: VMware's NSX pricing, a PoC for distributed NFV, a demo of VXLAN at 40G, and Ciena's

NFV performance can depend on where the functions get placed, so Cyan and Red Hat worked on OpenStack enhancements to give APIs some location control.