Jesper Andersen, who at separate times led network management and service-provider video at Cisco, will replace Robert Thomas, who announced his departure in May.

This week's roundup features issues with Microsoft Azure; SDN products from Calient, ECI, and Extreme Networks; and a survey revealing service providers' doubts about SDN.

OSS doesn't just stand for 'open-source software.' It's also the acronym for proprietary, complex software that runs a telecom network — software that the Metro Ethernet Forum hopes to

Wedge's new Cloud Network Defense service aims to tap the lucrative small and medium business market with an off-the-shelf security service.

In this week's roundup: AWS describes its network and works with Docker and Intel; HP and Nokia team up to help operators, and Rackspace supports Microsoft Hyper-V.

The virtual version of Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 Service Router emphasizes the 'service' piece. Instead of one virtual router, the company is offering a suite of router applications targeting NFV.

This week in the SDxCentral Weekly Roundup: ODL welcomes new members, PLUMgrid makes announcements during OpenStack Summit, Brocade and Pica8 bring in new talent.

Following the examples of Brocade and Cisco, Juniper has created virtual routers out of its MX line. The company is also applying Contrail to a prefab NFV cloud-in-a-rack.

Brocade extends its Effortless Network strategy to the campus, adding a distributed stackable switch that can act as a distributed chassis for a scale-out deployment.

HP and Wind River team up to offer carrier grade, open source solutions for CSPs looking to meet demands as they transition to network functions virtualization (NFV) environments.

For Midokura, it's an attempt to expand a known SDN product. For newcomer Akanda, out of DreamHost, it's "Ceph: The Sequel." Both believe open source code is the key

In this week's roundup: Cloud provider Joyent scored a $15 million funding round, Big Switch Networks said it will offer two "starter kits, F5 CEO John McAdam announced retirement

Early SDN was based on some misconceptions, according to SDN pioneer Scott Shenker. Here are his ideas for reinventing SDN for the carrier network.

In this week's update: New features, and a new exec, for Microsoft Azure; add-ons for Arista; and new friends for the Open Compute Project.

From last week's conference in Dusseldorf, Germany: thoughts on SDN, NFV, and open source — and the state of Tail-f within Cisco.

Still don't believe in OpenStack? Mirantis has picked up $100M as OpenStack becomes more of a household word, at least in cloud households.

Last week SDNCentral was in Dusseldorf, Germany for the 2014 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. Check out our Day 4 highlights and beyond as we continue to add new

This week's roundup includes OpenStack Juno, VMware's NSX, and VMware and CSC's collaboration to offer OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform.

Charlie Ashton outlines the pros and cons of the most common virtual switching solutions. Find out if it's possible to meet aggressive performance targets without compromising on critical system-level

Far from being a standards body, the OPNFV effort will be enlisting open source groups to help nurture NFV — a job that will need a diplomatic touch.

UOL will be using Embrane's heleos platform for Layer 4-7 functions, but it's really Embrane's work with Cisco's ACI that sparked the deal.

In another sign that vendors are taking OpenDaylight seriously, Dell is ponying up to become the project's tenth platinum-level sponsor.

As NTT Docomo expands its vEPC work, the carrier really wants NFV to provide reliability and cost savings, as Tatsuya Nakamura explained at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress.

After more than a year of SDN radio silence, Coriant unveils Transcend, an SDN portfolio and plan that includes a controller, an orchestrator, and an eye toward transport SDN.