SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — March 25, 2016
There were big personnel changes at Cisco and Cumulus.
News - Networking
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Verizon Built a Telco Cloud
It’s based on OpenStack, COTS hardware, and a pod architecture. -
Dell Betting Big on the Economics of Software-Defined Infrastructure
Dell anticipates declining demand for proprietary networking and storage architectures. -
Huawei Touts Its SDN for Data Center Interconnection
It uses an ONOS-based SDN controller. -
Tele2 Preps for 5G With Huawei & Cisco NFV Tools
It will have its vEPC in the cloud by the third quarter. -
Juniper Targets Tier 2s With IP & Optical Integration
It will integrate optical technology in its routers. -
Kelly Ahuja Will Be the Latest to Leave the Cisco Management Team
Yvette Kanouff takes the service provider group amid a reportedly huge Cisco reorg. -
CenturyLink Sends Mixed Messages on Its Data Center Plans
To sell or not to sell. -
OSM Comes to NFV MANO With Code in Hand
It's all about making VNFs easier to build, OSM members say. -
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — March 18, 2016
CORD was a big topic at the Open Networking Summit this week. -
Google Has Done NFV Load Balancing Since 2008
Google reveals details of its in-house NFV load balancer. -
With Open-O, China Tries Its Hand at Open Source
This could bring in a lot of Chinese developer talent. -
Microsoft’s SONiC May Spell Disaster for Switch Makers, or Not
Analysts disagree on whether Arista should be worried. -
Citrix Offers Its Enterprise Customers SD-WAN
It already has a built-in customer base for this offering. -
AT&T Considers Open Sourcing Its SDN 'Foundation'
John Donovan introduces Ecomp on the ONS 2016 stage. -
ONS Kickoff: Open Source Needs to Stay Open
Open source and networking do mix, but not easily. -
HPE Debuts Its Hyperconverged Appliance
HPE enters the hyperconverged infrastructure market with its HC 380. -
Skyport Systems Grabs Google & Cisco in $30M Series C
Security service provider focuses on zero-trust computing. -
MEF's Third Network Goes Forth With On.Lab
Linking open source efforts in the name of LSO. -
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — March 11, 2016
Radisys joins OCP, Cavium supports OpenSwitch, Telstra launches SDN product, other news from Versa, Vapor IO, Aryaka and more. -
NTT Docomo Chooses Cisco & NEC to Virtualize Its Mobile Network
Cisco does the SDN, and NEC does the NFV. -
Enterprises Projected to Increase Software-Defined Infrastructure Spending 14.4% in 2016
Only 16.3% of enterprises do SDN. -
SANs Are a ‘Pain Point’ in Converged Data Centers, Says Plexxi
Plexxi has created a product and lined up resellers. -
Microsoft Provides Open Source Cloud Switch Software
The Azure Cloud Switch becomes open source.