NFV management and orchestration will be a hot topic at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. And of course Amdocs, one of the big names in OSS/BSS, has something

Elite customers are buying into bare-metal switching, SDN, and NFV, but what about the rest of the world? Separate Dell, HP, and Cumulus products show the vendors reaching out

In this week's roundup: Tech breakup season, Q3 warnings from Juniper and Riverbed, some OpenStack love for Big Switch, and an update from one of those Docker startups.

HP is separating PCs and printers from enterprise — not a new idea, but one that could have extra meaning now that SDN and NFV have become ensconced in

In this week's SDNCentral roundup: Oracle supports OpenStack; OpenDaylight incurs a minor delay; Amazon and Rackspace reboot; and Compass-EOS produces an SDN "Forwarding Plane."

NFV is going open source with OPNFV, a Linux Foundation-based project that aims to develop an NFV architecture. The motivation: Carriers are impatient to get NFV into the real

The OpenDaylight Helium release is starting to take shape, with group policy getting an early nod and Cisco's OpFlex interface being held back for Lithium.

This week in SDxCentral's roundup: No one seems to want EMC; Puppet unveils some major update and changes; Docker adds 11 languages.

Is there life beyond Carrier Ethernet? After 13 years of working on that area, the Metro Ethernet Forum is ready for its next phase: building on-demand networks, orchestrated across

Juniper's Contrail Controller has been deployed by Czech Republican cloud-computing company tcp cloud to enhance creation of high-density private cloud solutions.

Pertino exapnds its SDN strategy with new apps for AppScape, the industry’s first app store for delivering virtual network services on cloud networks.

In this week's roundup: more execs take the Juniper-to-Brocade trail, an open source router on the TODO list, a new forum for NFV, and Larry's new job at Oracle.

Our Weekly Roundup for Friday, September 12 brings you news on many 'firsts:' virtualized content caching, OSS as a service, and a new OpenFlow-enabled SDN product for Microsoft Lync.

Small in cash but big in name, Eucalyptus brings HP some private-cloud savvy and former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who will run HP's networking business.

This week's roundup the OpenDaylight Project adding members; Mirantis and Avaya making big claims about traction; A10 settling a lawsuit; and Ciena joining Domain 2.0.

Nokia Networks' efforts in NFV and the cloud might pay off, in the form of a VoLTE service that a major operator wants to launch this year.

This week in SDN and NFV news: Facebook announced its testing for open Wedge switch design, while Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens resigns, and the SDN-related sales slowdown might

On the heels of a good quarter and flush with cash, HP may be looking for acquisitions, big or small, in areas including SDN and DevOps.

The HP NFV effort might have just taken a hit, as SVP Bethany Mayer has been hired away as Ixia's new president and CEO.

This week's roundup features VMworld warm-up news, a Cumulus milestone, Brocade's venture into Oceania, and a familiar Cisco name joining Riverbed.

HP Claims Networking Gains and NFV Progress in Q3

Turns out x86 chips are getting pretty good at packet processing. Brocade and Telefónica say they got 80G out of the Brocade 5600 virtual router, the latest descendent of

Ericsson and Ciena teamed up in February to provide Layer 0-3 networking and SDN. Now they've announced the first joint customer under that partnership: Australia's Telstra.

The Open Networking User Group welcomes new board members to help drive SDN and NFV deployments, while Array Networks and Penguin Computing release new products.