Telecom equipment vendor BTI had an eventful 2013 as it started targeting data-center interconnect and plowed money into R&D. Now the company has another infusion of cash, its third

This week: Tons of OFC news including Intel's 800G cables, Coriant's product plans, and MRV's HTML5-based service delivery software, plus the 'first' cloud-based load balancer and the SDN angle

OpenFlow 1.4 starts opening the protocol to the optical network, but the photonic layer is trickier than at the packet layer. OFC highlighted some of the challenges. Meanwhile, the

A very new startup with a CEO out of Facebook is providing the control plane for an architecture that could help data centers make use of all-optical switches —

SDN could integrate the management of packet and optical networks, but those capabilities have arrived too slowly for the taste of carriers speaking at the OSA Executive Forum. They

'Thought Cisco's SDN strategy was a mess? You weren't alone. It's still complex, but Cisco has honed down its message to one where SDN reigns and policy looms over

A busy week in SDN and NFV, thanks to the Open Networking Summit. In addition to Infonetics' analysis of a slow Q4 for routers and switches, we have items

The SDN machine is making good progress, but: Enterprises don't get it, ordinary data centers need better use cases, and there's a lack of success stories that don't sound

Looking at this summary to see the winner's name? As if! What's important is that the OpenFlow driver competition brought out some good code that the ONF intends to

More than a token SDN movement, AT&T's Domain 2.0 is about 'radically reshaping the entire wide-area network,' as keynoter John Donovan told the Open Networking Summit. He wants to

OpenFlow 2.0 doesn't exist yet, but Nick McKeown, Jennifer Rexford, and other researchers have crafted their vision of what it could be. It involves even more flexible switches that

The ONF is announcing its first app — but not for the sake of going into business. As Dan Pitt will explain at the Open Networking Summit, the ONF's

The OpenFlow 1.3 tide is going to be strong this year and especially this week, as the Open Networking Summit convenes. Brocade is announcing its OpenFlow 1.3 support, but

NEC continues to plug away at advancing its OpenFlow software, this time creating the Unified Network Coordinator to manage 10 OpenFlow controllers as one. It's arriving with new ProgrammableFlow

At Mobile World Congress, everybody loves Telefonica; Martin Casado tells RSA about security's Goldilocks zone; Napatech and VSS Monitoring advance network monitoring; Europe gets more bare-metal switching; storage gets

The Brocade SDN army continues to grow. The latest recruit is Kevin Woods, who headed up Cisco's onePK initiative and helped organize the company's cross-department SDN strategy.

At Mobile World Congress, little-known startup Affirmed Networks got a surge of attention after being picked by AT&T to work on the LTE evolved packet core (EPC). It turns

With so many vendors showing off NFV versions of evolved packet cores (EPCs), AT&T's choice of a Domain 2.0 partner was a surprise: startup Affirmed Networks. It's an indication

OK, they still look like switches, but Corsa's boxes are purely OpenFlow beasts, their only job being to execute OpenFlow commands in a pure SDN environment.

HP, Wind River, and Broadcom are coming to Mobile World Congress with efforts to build an ecosystem to nurture the development of NFV. It's going to be a lingering

Juniper comes to Mobile World Congress with a broadened SDN portfolio. The NorthStar controller steers traffic between optical and higher layers; a new line of servers makes its debut;

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, February 21. We’ve got information on an upcoming NFV demo at Mobile World Congress, new upgrades and platforms for network visibility, and

A $75M legal settlement with Brocade is in the past, and A10 thinks it's now ready to take on the public market. The company's IPO filing reveals some quick

It sounds like NFV is going to be all over Mobile World Congress next week. Alcatel-Lucent is talking about three mobile-network areas that it's focusing NFV efforts on, resulting