Nobody was surprised when NEC received the ONF's first OpenFlow conformance certification, but the second one has gone to a company that wasn't really talking about SDN a year

The Linux Foundation, a possible new ETSI effort, the ExperiaSphere experiment from analyst Tom Nolle — NFV continues to move quickly, with major changes afoot as the discussion turns

HP’s Cisco 'killer,' Equinix's on-demand virtual network, CloudPhysics' new funding and new features, a newly deployed software-defined WAN, Aryaka's spin on CDNs, and Mark Templeton's non-career-changing decision.

We don't know much about the business model behind Cisco's ACI and the APIC policy controller that's at the heart of it. But we now know this: While it's

It's been a year since PLUMgrid launched its virtual network infrastructure (VNI) platform. Now it's making a play for cloud services by launching a networking suite meant for integration

Telecom equipment vendors' chances of getting acquired are on the rise, according to Goldman Sachs. Among the companies with a raised M&A rating from the firm: Juniper, Ciena, and

Extreme Networks was an early proponent of OpenFlow, but of course, times have changed. Now that the OpenDaylight Project is looking serious, Extreme is building an OpenDaylight controller in

You might think it's the height of marketing cynicism, but really, the 'SDN' ports on MRV's new packet-optical gear really are meant for SDN. It's a nod to the

News of the week: Facebook's home-grown switch makes waves; NTT's virtual switch goes open-source; OpenDaylight schedules a mini-summit for August; and Lyatiss changes to CloudWeaver and expands beyond Amazon.

NFV and OpenStack were big topics at the Big Telecom Event, and that was reflected in the news announcements and demos at the show. Here are snippets from Huawei,

In acquiring Tail-f for $175M, Cisco says it's gaining some multivendor support for NFV provisioning — and Cisco says it's serious about the 'multivendor' aspect. Even so, customers might

Policy-based networking (think Cisco ACI), a Yang-based configuration model, a full Layer 0-7 topology model — Google wants them all, and it's enlisting help to make them open-source.

NFV needs to be done right if it's to be the fuel for some major telecom changes, says Axel Clauberg of DT. Speaking at the Big Telecom Event, he

Cisco keeps promising to be 'open' in all matters SDN, and here's it's chance to prove it. Tail-f, whose Netconf-based network configuration won the hearts of AT&T and DT,

Cyan Extends Blue Planet into NFV Orchestration

The major cloud players, including Amazon and Microsoft, engaged in some serious cost-cutting earlier this year. Google is starting to bring out new features in hopes of finding some

John Chambers' speculated retirement from Cisco leads this week's news roundup ... also: VMware's NSX pricing, a PoC for distributed NFV, a demo of VXLAN at 40G, and Ciena's

Huawei's Justin Dustzadeh, speaking at a Linley Group event on carrier networks, says service providers want SDN to open up a best-of-breed approach as opposed to, oh, I don't

Orchestration, control, connectivity — it's all going to blend into one big services layer, Brocade thinks. The future it envisions involves a pool of SDN and NFV elements that

Network virtualization will top the SDN news out of HP Discover. That might not be earth-shattering, but HP officials say the point is that their SDN story has stayed

To the outside world, Prodip Sen's departure as ETSI NFV chair seems abrupt, but a source close to ETSI insists it's a calculated effort that began in April and

In this week's SDN/NFV news roundup: Telefónica wants NFV 'instantly,' OpenDaylight gets bigger, Cisco gains even more bragging rights, and Ericsson makes a move on the server market.

Cisco had a lot to say about ACI at the recent Cisco Live, but it also had a lot to say about VMware's NSX, and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger

HP's NFV division, announced in February, adds a big name: Prodip Sen, the former Verizon executive and soon-to-be ex-chair of the ETSI NFV specifcations group.