It's understandable that investors want to find a way into SDN, but the "SDN" companies might not be the right picks.

With so many twists and turns, it's always going to be a long battle for the new hot-shot startup. Many will try, but only a few will survive.

We look back at the biggest network security stories of the year, and what they mean for the future of software-defined security.

As machines get connected and users become more mobile, Cisco thinks it's got a play in collecting data and running analytics, a broad initiative for the company's Internet of

In this week's roundup: Juniper and VMware team up some more; HP will start reselling Alcatel-Lucent routers; a highly visible Cisco exec departs; a software-defined storage startup raises $53M.

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.

With a virtualized test tool called TrueSpeed VNF, JDSU aims to restore some of the visibility lost in virtualized environments while also saving service providers some opex.

Recent excitement at Juniper and Cisco reveals an underlying shift in the router market. And you can't pin it all on SDN.

TiMetra was arguably the best networking acquisition in history, and Alcatel-Lucent CEO Michel Combes knows it

Following the examples of Brocade and Cisco, Juniper has created virtual routers out of its MX line. The company is also applying Contrail to a prefab NFV cloud-in-a-rack.

With optical vendors itching to get into SDN, Ciena and Ericsson think OpenDaylight could use a common data model for multilayer controllers.

Cisco insists that Intercloud, the fabric allowing workloads to move freely between clouds, to be an industrywide movement. So it's announcing 30 partners who want to share the cloud

Is there life beyond Carrier Ethernet? After 13 years of working on that area, the Metro Ethernet Forum is ready for its next phase: building on-demand networks, orchestrated across

Pertino exapnds its SDN strategy with new apps for AppScape, the industry’s first app store for delivering virtual network services on cloud networks.

Cavium's recent acquisition of Xpliant wasn't a lucky break. It began years ago with a plan to break the curse hanging over semiconductor startups.

Alcatel-Lucent has a combined packet-optical SDN approach that will get introduced later this year. And of course, it's going to take advantage of the company's not-so-secret weapon: Nuage.

Maybe 'disaggregation' is a less gory way to say it. Cisco is prepping UCS for big data and the Internet of Everything, introducing an architecture akin to Intel's RSA.

Containers have caught on as a way to pool resources in the cloud

A new Metaswitch project aims to bring open-source Layer 3 code to OpenStack-based NFV environments. It's the best way to scale NFV, the company claims, and besides, all the

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

The major cloud players, including Amazon and Microsoft, engaged in some serious cost-cutting earlier this year. Google is starting to bring out new features in hopes of finding some

Even more ACI and APIC observations from Cisco Live 2014: ACI use cases, a bit of business analysis, some CEO self-reflection, and a renegade conference just down the street.

It looks like the WAN is heating up as a target for startups. After CloudGenix launched last week, vIPtela is now releasing details of its architecture, which uses secure

A touch of policy, a pinch of NFV-like virtualization — startup CloudGenix mixes it all together to produce what it claims is a new, disaggregated approach to the enterprise