Everyone seems to be producing an ARM 64-bit chip these days, and Cavium, which announced its ARM plans in 2012, is no exception. But Cavium claims its advantage is

Carriers are sharpening their perspectives on NFV, and it shows in AlcaLu's CloudBand traction. Live-traffic trials are approaching, and the partner ecosystem is blossoming.

Cisco's ACI has relegated a lot of other acronyms to the dustbin of "Whatever happened to ...?" Here's what happened to nLight, the converged packet/optical control plane that sounded

Analysts say router and switch growth has slowed or even stopped, and they don't think it's an anomaly. SDN is causing some buyers to hesitate, and the white-box movement

This week's news roundup includes the Palo Alto-Juniper settlement; PoC trials in NFV and storage; Ericsson's plans for new Silicon Valley digs; and ARM's data-center advance.

NTT claims it's the first provider to offer on-demand services, fulfilling a longtime promise of SDN and NFV and showing why the $525M acquisition of Virtela was a crucial

NFV performance can depend on where the functions get placed, so Cyan and Red Hat worked on OpenStack enhancements to give APIs some location control.

VMware is getting more into networking, but would it really want to get into the open-source support business? Regardless of the answer, rumors of a merger persist.

More photos from the Cisco Live exhibit floor and DevNet center, this time focusing on the fun stuff — three days' worth of beer, bands, and some actual development

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 23, as we look at Cisco's latest security acquisition, an SDN-controlled 4K video services network, and more layoff news from HP

Even more ACI and APIC observations from Cisco Live 2014: ACI use cases, a bit of business analysis, some CEO self-reflection, and a renegade conference just down the street.

Gavin Newsom took the stage briefly as Cisco celebrated 25 years of Cisco Live events. John Chambers also took the stage briefly before starting his usual walk around the

The ETSI NFV group is undergoing some leadership changes as it faces rapid membership growth as well as the end of its charter in 2015. It's time to decide

Well, duh, you might say. But consider: Even a year ago, the Cisco CEO wouldn't even utter 'SDN.' Now that Cisco believes its ACI can lead the market, Cisco

Partner vendors are eager to announce new capabilities at Cisco Live. F5 has a lot to say about SDN and Cisco's ACI, but DevOps and process automation get some

Cisco is extending its Evolved Services Platform for SDN out to the WAN, promising multivendor visibility and orchestration that could be a rival for Cyan's Blue Planet platform.

Prodip Sen has been a key voice for NFV as the chairman of the ETSI specifications group and a network architect at Verizon — but he's stopped doing at

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 16, as we look at the use cases most likely to be included in RFIs/RFQs this year and give you a

Bit by bit, Cisco's SDN — and it's OK to call it "SDN" now — is taking shape. Cisco is priming next week's Cisco Live audience with more features

As Cisco's ACI prepares for full availability, the company says customer interest is building quickly — although most of that might be interest in the plain Nexus 9000 without

Satisfied that the project is going somewhere useful, and in the throes of an expanding obsession with open networking, HP is upping its commitment to the OpenDaylight Project.

19-year HP vet Antonio Neri has been chosen to lead HP's networking division, SDNCentral has learned. He fills the vacancy created when Bethany Mayer got reassigned in February.

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 9, for news on EMC’s plans for hyper-converged infrastructure, HP’s $1 billion open cloud investment, and a surprising departure from Cisco’s

For years, Cisco wouldn't touch PON or DSL. But now, the access network could have a role to play in SDN and in Cisco's Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and that