Saisei's FlowCommand product will now be available through the HP SDN App Store after being demoed during HP Discover in Barcelona.

Embracing the Open Compute Project, Juniper plans to start selling a white box running Junos. It's open enough that you can even take Junos out. But it's not a

A new division called Ciena Agility aims to let service providers assemble new services on the fly, using NFV to collect network functions not only from Ciena but from

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.

The makers of Weave, software for networking Docker containers, have raised a $5M Series A to further the company formerly known as Zettio.

Docker supporter CoreOS doesn't like what it's seeing in Linux containers these days. With a new open source project, Rocket, CoreOS hopes to outdo the Docker camp.

Another exec joins the Brocade SDN crew, as Michael Bushong leaves Plexxi to become Brocade's VP of data center switching and routing.

When Open vSwitch essentially ended up in VMware's hands, there was cause for some wariness. But the consensus seems to be that VMware has kept the project open and

A team of Stanford Ph.Ds led by David Erickson, author of the Beacon controller, have founded a startup and raised funding from Andreessen Horowitz, among others.

Jesper Andersen, who at separate times led network management and service-provider video at Cisco, will replace Robert Thomas, who announced his departure in May.

Remember OVDK? Now you won't have to. Intel is stopping development on its forked version of the open source switching project to join the mainstream Open vSwitch flow.

This week's roundup features issues with Microsoft Azure; SDN products from Calient, ECI, and Extreme Networks; and a survey revealing service providers' doubts about SDN.

How Google & OpenConfig Plan to Model the Whole Network

OSS doesn't just stand for 'open-source software.' It's also the acronym for proprietary, complex software that runs a telecom network — software that the Metro Ethernet Forum hopes to

Wedge's new Cloud Network Defense service aims to tap the lucrative small and medium business market with an off-the-shelf security service.

Viptela, having raised $33.5M earlier this year, signs a deal to let enterprise users automatically route traffic through Zscaler’s data center security portals.

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

Recent Open vSwitch work has focused on improving performance. The key was to streamline the way the switch examines packet headers.

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

In this week's roundup: AWS describes its network and works with Docker and Intel; HP and Nokia team up to help operators, and Rackspace supports Microsoft Hyper-V.

Facebook has disclosed a new architecture for its data centers, taking away the hierarchy of clusters in favor of an a more modular pod-based layout that's all Layer 3.

Security virtualization startup Catbird declares itself ready for a growth phase by making the customary changing of CEOs: David Keasey is in for Eduardo Costa.

The Open Networking Foundation announces that its OpenFlow Conformance Testing Program is now open to non-members in an attempt to broaden the SDN ecosystem with a diverse range of

Security and data center revenue showed strong growth, but Cisco earnings face headwinds in the carrier market, CEO John Chambers says.