The ETSI NFV group is undergoing some leadership changes as it faces rapid membership growth as well as the end of its charter in 2015. It's time to decide
In this week's roundup: Ericsson shakes up Networks; VTEPs start shipping for VMware; Nuage turns 1 and recaps its customer traction; AT&T adds to Domain 2.0.
Metaswitch's open-source Project Clearwater is going to fuel the growth of Tiscali's successful Indoona service for over-the-top voice and messaging. From the vendor's point of view, it's an good
With so many vendors showing off NFV versions of evolved packet cores (EPCs), AT&T's choice of a Domain 2.0 partner was a surprise: startup Affirmed Networks. It's an indication
Yes, it's another Cisco acronym related to SDN. The Evolved Services Platform is an orchestration facet of the Open Network Environment (ONE), and some of its first uses —
It's Mobile World Congress time again, and Ericsson has lots to say about the mobile network. It's going to be saying a lot about NFV, SDN, and cloud services,
IBM considers a $1 billion SDN sale (or maybe not); VMware collects more NSX customers; Mellanox tries something new with its Ethernet chip; the ONF expands its OpenFlow testing.
NFV has enjoyed a great year of popularity, now comes the hard part. As carriers and vendors start tinkering, they're learning about the obstacles — small ones and really
Google and HP update public clouds; Metaswitch furthers its open-source IMS cause; Plexxi produces a new switch for its optical networks; Napatech goes public, although you wouldn't know it
Taken literally (and assuming proper context and translation), CEO Ren Zhengfei just said Huawei is giving up on the United States market altogether. A company statement makes it sound
NFV has to be about more than cost-cutting. As participants at the Software Telco Congress argued, it's got to be something more transformational, putting carriers on the faster, more
NFV was announced at last year's SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, and its one-year anniversary was a central topic at this year's show. Specifications and frameworks are set. Now
The Vyatta router makes the jump to 10 Gb/s, partly the result of Intel's refueled ambitions in the packet processing space. Software appliances will need those speeds to keep