That's not a good thing, by the way. Burned by the promises of ISDN and ATM, some carriers attending the recent MEF meeting say they're cautious about SDN. They'd

Cisco announced layoffs of 6,000 to go along with a flat Q4 report, leaving investors with plenty to worry about. As fiscal 2015 begins, could SDN and NFV help

In this week's news: Genband will join the Intel Network Builders program, Abiquo and CloudSigma partner up, CPlane and KnowISys join, the latest model of Overture 6500 and more.

In its seventh quarterly meeting, the ETSI group spearheading network functions virtualization (NFV) voted to stick around for two more years and elected new leadership from AT&T and NTT

While SDN and NFV hold incredible potential to change the face of networking and infrastructure, more than half of respondents to a recent SDNCentral poll said they believe it

In this week's news: Juniper touts an OpenContrail win, Ericsson buys a new toy, AT&T builds an orchestrator, Intel invests in container-based management, and Pertino targets the WAN.

In this week's SDN-related news: Big Switch Networks announced partnership with In-Q-Tel, creators of Orchard and Fig are joining the Docker team, AT&T announced its newest vendors, Catbird extends

In this week's SDN-related news: Meg Whitman takes the chair at HP; VMware expands its cloud reach in Asia, while BTI does the same in Europe; and Juniper and

Heading off the opener-than-thou wars that are erupting among vendors, the IT executives in ONUG have defined what they expect out of open networks, from architectural elements to expected

In this week's roundup: the Cisco/Rackspace theory that just won't die, Midokura's adventures in partner-hunting, and IBM's plan to throw $3B in the general direction of the cloud.

A new Metaswitch project aims to bring open-source Layer 3 code to OpenStack-based NFV environments. It's the best way to scale NFV, the company claims, and besides, all the

The Linux Foundation, a possible new ETSI effort, the ExperiaSphere experiment from analyst Tom Nolle — NFV continues to move quickly, with major changes afoot as the discussion turns

HP’s Cisco 'killer,' Equinix's on-demand virtual network, CloudPhysics' new funding and new features, a newly deployed software-defined WAN, Aryaka's spin on CDNs, and Mark Templeton's non-career-changing decision.

You might think it's the height of marketing cynicism, but really, the 'SDN' ports on MRV's new packet-optical gear really are meant for SDN. It's a nod to the

News of the week: Facebook's home-grown switch makes waves; NTT's virtual switch goes open-source; OpenDaylight schedules a mini-summit for August; and Lyatiss changes to CloudWeaver and expands beyond Amazon.

NFV and OpenStack were big topics at the Big Telecom Event, and that was reflected in the news announcements and demos at the show. Here are snippets from Huawei,

In acquiring Tail-f for $175M, Cisco says it's gaining some multivendor support for NFV provisioning — and Cisco says it's serious about the 'multivendor' aspect. Even so, customers might

NFV needs to be done right if it's to be the fuel for some major telecom changes, says Axel Clauberg of DT. Speaking at the Big Telecom Event, he

Cyan Extends Blue Planet into NFV Orchestration

John Chambers' speculated retirement from Cisco leads this week's news roundup ... also: VMware's NSX pricing, a PoC for distributed NFV, a demo of VXLAN at 40G, and Ciena's

Huawei's Justin Dustzadeh, speaking at a Linley Group event on carrier networks, says service providers want SDN to open up a best-of-breed approach as opposed to, oh, I don't

Orchestration, control, connectivity — it's all going to blend into one big services layer, Brocade thinks. The future it envisions involves a pool of SDN and NFV elements that

Network virtualization will top the SDN news out of HP Discover. That might not be earth-shattering, but HP officials say the point is that their SDN story has stayed

To the outside world, Prodip Sen's departure as ETSI NFV chair seems abrupt, but a source close to ETSI insists it's a calculated effort that began in April and