With its new Layerscape chips, Freescale is trying to make a system-on-chip friendly enough for software people. The goal was to abstract the network, much in the way that

In this week's news: BTI gets a CEO; ConteXtream and Guavus team up; Huawei starts an OpenDaylight testing center in Shenzhen; and OpenDaylight offers student internships for the summer.

What makes OpenStack so popular? Howie Xu, who's worked in virtual switching at Cisco, Big Switch, and VMware, took a look at the platform with fresh eyes and shared

Well, not literally. But a technology called RISE makes it possible for a partner's system to behave like a Nexus 7000 line card. This could bring Nexus up to

SDN isn't a threat to networking jobs, and the migration to a DevOps model doesn't necessarily mean everybody has to become a programmer. Even so, the nature of networking

This week's Interop-heavy roundup includes the 'Open Cloud Project,' new switches, a new SDN architecture, and new partner programs. Plus, find out who went home with the Best of

This week, Cisco put itself forth as a champion of policy-based networking, but it turns out VMware Chief Networking Architect Martin Casado has been looking in that direction too.

Juniper to cut 6% of company and will also drop its ADC ambitions as CEO Shaygan

Cisco's ACI is a departure not just from other SDN plays but from normal networking. So, Cisco is proposing new standards around it, hoping to infuse application policy into

Yes, it's very early to be sizing up NFV. But you've got to start somewhere, and the process can highlight what questions are still lingering, as Dell'Oro Group found

What were we thinking? Clearly, the paradigm of software-defined networking (SDN) must give way to scalable, integrated architectures built with elastic connectivity on nonlinear systems principles. Or something.

Here's a shock: Interop Las Vegas is full of SDN chatter. Juniper Contrail gets a security partner; HP makes progress on its app store; Broadcom continues its control-plane push;

Layer 4-7 startup Embrane has apparently reached that point where it's time to bring in a more seasoned CEO. Bill Burns, who left Spirent in September, will be taking

In its most ambitious deal yet announced, Nuage will be fueling the SDN side of Numergy, a greenfield cloud provider that's backed by SFR and the French government and

Carrier Ethernet equipment can be a prosperous niche, but Overture decided last year that the future was it software. It's now trying to establish an SDN and orchestration framework

Google, Amazon, and Cisco elbow each other in cloud services; a big name leaves Facebook; Cumulus' bare-metal switches score a victory; and the Linux Foundation studies the benefits of

Metaswitch's open-source Project Clearwater is going to fuel the growth of Tiscali's successful Indoona service for over-the-top voice and messaging. From the vendor's point of view, it's an good

Dell has been big on open-source lately, dealing with Red Hat, CloudNFV, and OpenStack. On the latter front, it's introduced code to connect its fabric to an OpenStack cloud,

Cisco did indeed invest in SDN startup Embrane, part of a $14M round being formally announced. But it's also a partner, in an agreement that lets the companies offer

The last thing Cisco wants to say at its Partner Summit is that its sales-channel partners will be less valuable in an SDN world. On the contrary, Cisco will

One intriguing side business of SDN will be analytics. Knowledge about what's really happening in the network will be available to an unprecedented extent, thanks to the chatter of

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, March 21. This SDNCentral Roundup includes news on an SDN-based IP and optical network, WAN optimization for the cloud, and a new

Connecting physical and virtual networks is a popular theme lately. Midokura is taking that step by using VXLAN to connect its virtual network elements to Cumulus' bare metal switches.

Everyone loves the ideas of open-source and open systems, but how happy would they be to implement them? A survey commissioned by OpenDaylight shows operators have some predictable concerns.