Cisco isn't exactly the best fit for AT&T's Domain 2.0 plans; FireEye puts out $1 billion to add to its security arsenal; Cisco's newest switches might offer Broadcom with

To say it's been a big year for SDN and NFV would be beyond an understatement. Here's our look at some of the most-watched and most-talked-about stories of 2013,

Our community was generous in helping us cover the myriad issues around SDN and NFV in 2013. Here we list a few of our favorites that ask (or answer)

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — December 20, 2013

On.Lab is aggressively courting prospective customers to help fund ONOS, a supposedly open-source controller that would be an alternative to OpenDaylight in the WAN. But how 'open' is ONOS,

Having raised nearly $17 million without the help of venture capital, and with Cisco now an official reseller, Glue Networks — which develops software for dynamic and flexible WAN

NFV has enjoyed a great year of popularity, now comes the hard part. As carriers and vendors start tinkering, they're learning about the obstacles — small ones and really

Network monitoring has been a good market for Gigamon, but now everybody seems to be getting into it. The company responded by moving into packet modification with some features

Defending Cisco's SDN approach; OpenFlow 1.3 gets test support from Ixia; SolidFire attracts cloud vendors to flash storage at scale; CENX helps the OSS automates Etherent services; a new

The war over Layer 3 encapsulation methods doesn't seem like a war worth fighting, or even worth watching on TV. We've heard the comment a couple of times that

As CEO Kevin Johnson prepares to step down, it's hardly surprising to see one of his top lieutenants leave as well. Bob Muglia was enlisted from Microsoft to help

Jeffrey Wang joins as VP of engineering, as Big Switch continues to flesh out its new team and new mission. His background: Switches, switches, and more switches, from the

Bits of the old Force10 are making their way into the campus network. Dell is phasing out the PowerConnect series in favor of the new N series, which features

White-box switches are mostly associated with big data-center deployments, but they can be useful in carrier environments, too. It's partly a matter of carriers adopting the right attitude about

Bare-metal switching needs some help to grow beyond a DIY crowd, as Pica8 and Cumulus Networks are both finding. Both are software companies providing hardware because customers request it.

Google and HP update public clouds; Metaswitch furthers its open-source IMS cause; Plexxi produces a new switch for its optical networks; Napatech goes public, although you wouldn't know it

Dec. 9 was to be OpenDaylight's first code release, but that's now being pushed back by a few weeks, the organization says. The reason appears to be what you

When it comes to northbound interfaces, the ONF wants not to standardize, but to provide common code that can be used in frequently encountered use cases, says HP's Sarwar

Policy enforcement is hot. ServiceMesh does policy enforcement. But instead of getting acquired by a hip Silicon Valley house, ServiceMesh is in the hands of 54-year-old CSC. The startup's

Taken literally (and assuming proper context and translation), CEO Ren Zhengfei just said Huawei is giving up on the United States market altogether. A company statement makes it sound

Amid this week's news: NFV makes progress, as shown by NSN and CloudNFV; ScaleXtreme debuts Advanced Cloud Management, targeting enterprise users new to public clouds; Extreme Networks gains more

Rumors of layoffs and a scuttled round of funding are suddenly surrounding Embrane, but executives insist everything's on track, including that crucial Series C financing. As time passes, though,

NFV has to be about more than cost-cutting. As participants at the Software Telco Congress argued, it's got to be something more transformational, putting carriers on the faster, more

Cloud providers' eyes might light up at the prospect of using bare-metal switches, but for the enterprise IT people who don't want to spend overtime assembling piece-parts for the