Rumors peg Big Switch and Pluribus as possible acquisition targets — and more generally, SDN might be mature enough for OEMs to start plugging some holes.

Last year, Sonus announced a way to put a session border controller (SBC) onto a Juniper router. Now the companies are taking the next step with Juniper Contrail.

In this week's SDNCentral roundup: Oracle supports OpenStack; OpenDaylight incurs a minor delay; Amazon and Rackspace reboot; and Compass-EOS produces an SDN "Forwarding Plane."

Well, you didn't expect him to join Cisco, did you? Replaced as Big Switch CEO last year, Guido Appenzeller will continue the SDN fight, this time with an established

The company gets more funding to push the white-box cause, as its networking OS is starting to reach an audience beyond the likes of Amazon and Google.

Another key milestone for the new Big Switch: The company is shipping Big Cloud Fabric, the flagship product behind its new strategy of providing hyperscale-style bare-metal switching for the

NFV is going open source with OPNFV, a Linux Foundation-based project that aims to develop an NFV architecture. The motivation: Carriers are impatient to get NFV into the real

With the Helium release, the idea of OpenDaylight release vehicles has been replaced with a choose-it-yourself menu based on Apache Karaf containers.

As part of Cisco's Intercloud frenzy today, Equinix announced it's deploying the full Cisco ACI suite, although its Cloud Exchange will still work with other options.

The OpenDaylight Helium release is starting to take shape, with group policy getting an early nod and Cisco's OpFlex interface being held back for Lithium.

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

This week in SDxCentral's roundup: No one seems to want EMC; Puppet unveils some major update and changes; Docker adds 11 languages.

Security products are using SDN to target the very problems created by SDN itself and by network virtualization. Intel's recent announcement is a good example of that trend.

It took a few more months than expected, but HP's SDN app store will open its virtual doors next week.

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

It's the latest attempt to 'domesticate' TCP/IP: Saisei's FlowCommand seizes control of network flows to prevent sessions from dropping.

Cavium got a leg up on Broadcom by announcing a programmable Ethernet chip, but Broadcom has countered with Tomahawk, the Trident II sequel that targets hyperscale deployments.

Juniper's Contrail Controller has been deployed by Czech Republican cloud-computing company tcp cloud to enhance creation of high-density private cloud solutions.

Apcera wants to build big, policy-aware hybrid clouds for the enterprise, but the 2-year-old company could use some help. Ericsson is not only providing funding but will help develop

Brocade has been amassing SDN talent and talking big about open networking. Now the company is producing an OpenDaylight controller to go along with its OpenStack framework.

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

In this week's roundup: more execs take the Juniper-to-Brocade trail, an open source router on the TODO list, a new forum for NFV, and Larry's new job at Oracle.

Open-source software and DevOps have sped up the world, and telcos need to catch up or get steamrolled, according to Brocade exec Kelly Herrell.

A new bit of memory technology at Insieme will help continue to fuel Cisco's ASIC habit, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.