Maybe so. The Interop keynotes didn't enlighten much, if you're already on the SDN bandwagon, but they reinforced the idea that what we're calling 'SDN' will be normal networking

Call it an attempt to gentrify the neighborhood. HP hopes and SDN app store and an SDK will help a community bloom around its products by helping developers get

Cisco admits what's been known for a while: White-box switches really are a threat. Elsewhere in the week, OpenFlow 1.3 starts showing up everywhere and the optical networking industry

Brocade is "the one who knocks" ... or so the company is saying, as it narrows its focus down to the data center, betting that its Ethernet fabric and

... But let's face it, that's how it's going to be deployed at first. Cisco has grand visions for the NCS platform as a new type of network core,

The new NCS product line is more than Cisco's next huge router. It's part of an SDN/NFV strategy where services from Layers 1 through 7 can be provisioned and

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup – September 20, 2013

Wireless, optical, and broadband access networks really do have uses for SDN — or they will, if vendors have their way. Here's a smattering if ideas that have come

The Vyatta router makes the jump to 10 Gb/s, partly the result of Intel's refueled ambitions in the packet processing space. Software appliances will need those speeds to keep

It seems everything in SDN is becoming not only "open," but open-source. But while an open-source framework is already out there — OpenDaylight— Juniper says there's still logic, and

It's the opposite of Juniper's traditional strategy: The company is taking its Contrail SDN platform open-source, trying to grab mindshare and steer the market towards an MPLS/XMPP approach. Very

Extreme and Enterasys try their hand at consolidation, but is it enough? (Hint: No.) Also, the OpenDaylight Project offers a wider peek at its first release, two 'open' SDN-related

Nuage says its SDN architecture needed one piece to be truly 'end-to-end:' a gateway connecting to physical ports. A software gateway or a white-box switch wasn't enough, Nuage decided,

It's been a year of big change for Big Switch. In explaining the recent turmoil, co-founder Kyle Forster says the company has dropped plans for overlay networks and started

Still pushing the idea of ASICs over merchant chips, Cisco is reportedly ready to announce a processor that enables 400G ports

Quite a bit, actually; otherwise we wouldn't have held SDDC13. During the symposium, we got insight into the use cases driving SDDC and where vendors feel the customer pull

A cloud-heavy week sees Cloudscaling and EMC putting up challenges to Amazon and Intel unveiling its Rack Scale Architecture with some new, key pieces.

If not, what's Big Switch's next move? The early leader among SDN startups is facing challenges including OpenDaylight and an industry shift to an overlay-network mentality. It may be

Relive this past week's VMworld, or just catch up. Here's a summary of our coverage and other analysis.

SDN and network virtualization sound so much better when surrounded by beer and pretzels. And a Galaga machine never hurts.

Why wasn't Cisco listed among VMware's NSX partners? Candidly, Cisco admits it doesn't agree with NSX. But Trey Layton, CTO of the VCE joint venture, says that doesn't mean

It wasn't all VMworld this week, you know. Here's a look at what else happened.

Another Big Switch executive finds a new home, as Andrew Harding joins the world of network monitoring and network packet brokers (don't call them 'taps!')

This year's VMware confab advanced the state of SDN today and hinted at what to worry about tomorrow. Here's Matt's take not only on NSX and Cisco, but on