What's Still Good, Bad & Ugly About NFV
It ain't all bad (or ugly), an Oracle OpenWorld session finds.
News - Networking
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Ericsson to Cut 3K Jobs in Sweden By Shuttering Manufacturing Sites
The move is expected to save the company $350 million. -
Centec Raises $47M to Battle Broadcom
Centec is producing Ethernet switching chips. -
T-Mobile Taps Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung for 5G Tests
Although T-Mobile hasn’t talked about SDN, it is working closely with Deutsche Telekom. -
OpenDaylight Unleashes Boron, its Fifth Code Iteration
It includes increased contributions from operators. -
AirGig: Broadband over Power Lines Could Speed Up 5G
It’s a lot cheaper than digging fiber trenches and erecting towers. -
AT&T's ECOMP & Open-O Might Step on Each Others’ Toes
And then there’s the China factor. -
Cloud Migration Is Making Performance Monitoring Crucial
More than half of surveyed respondents are actively looking at APM and NPM systems. -
Versa-led Alliance Promotes White Box SD-WAN Hardware
White-box vendors Advantech, Silicom, and Lanner Electronics are part of the group. -
Masergy Resells Silver Peak’s SD-WAN
UK’s Interoute will also resell Silver Peak’s SD-WAN. -
Vista Equity Partners Takes Infoblox Private for $1.6B
After a roller coaster ride for the stock, Infoblox takes Vista's offer. -
Nokia Makes Enterprise Push with Edge Computing, XaaS
Mobile Edge Computing will let enterprises connect low-latency applications at the edge of the network. -
Changes in HPE Networking: Gillai Leaving, Arista Scaling
Saar Gillai plans to leave HPE at year's end. -
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — September 16, 2016
Extreme Networks has come to an agreement to acquire Zebra Technologies’ wireless LAN business. -
Concept of Shared WiFi Precipitated SD-WAN for Mushroom Networks
SD-WAN sprouts like mushrooms in a rainy Autumn. -
Mirantis' Kubernetes Plan Advances With TCP Cloud
Another step toward infrastructure-as-code. -
Orange Throws its Hat Into the Ring with AT&T’s ECOMP
ECOMP finds its first service-provider friend. -
Nokia Takes a DevOps Approach to the Cloud
Cloud Design Center’s aim is to simplify multivendor cloud networks for operators. -
Riverbed Monitors Applications Within Its Own SD-WAN
It's also fixed some blind spots within its application monitoring product. -
Verizon and AT&T Spar Over 5G Standards Process
AT&T says there is no way all of Verizon's 5G specs will be adopted by the 3GPP. -
Virtualized Security: Finding a Balance Between Opportunity & Threat
Forget about securing a perimeter. -
Standards Move at Snail's Pace for the NFV Community
Code or die! -
Vectra Extends Its Threat Management Into the Data Center
The threat management startup joins the data center crowd. -
Dan Pitt Steps Down From the ONF
Pitt championed SDN back when few had heard of it.