SmartSky wants to avoid hardware as much as possible.

Google writes a book on data center reliability.

Operators see SDN as a stepping stone to 5G.

Neutron has merely gotten a bad rap, OpenStack officials say.

It doesn't compete with MANO.

No fooling — our top headlines of the week, plus tidbits from ZTE, Fujitsu, and Calix.

Nothosauraus promises to be an open source heavyweight.

It’s all about on-demand Ethernet services.

It used a Mellanox NIC for the throughput.

Ecomp would be the mother of SDN open source groups.

There were big personnel changes at Cisco and Cumulus.

It will have its vEPC in the cloud by the third quarter.

Yvette Kanouff takes the service provider group amid a reportedly huge Cisco reorg.

It's all about making VNFs easier to build, OSM members say.

CORD was a big topic at the Open Networking Summit this week.

Google reveals details of its in-house NFV load balancer.

This could bring in a lot of Chinese developer talent.

John Donovan introduces Ecomp on the ONS 2016 stage.

Linking open source efforts in the name of LSO.

Radisys joins OCP, Cavium supports OpenSwitch, Telstra launches SDN product, other news from Versa, Vapor IO, Aryaka and more.

Cisco does the SDN, and NEC does the NFV.

Versa recently added SD-security to its SD-WAN.

Cisco's joined the NFVI party, too.

Dell's post-EMC lineup, plus headlines from RSA.