In this week's SDN/NFV news roundup: Telefónica wants NFV 'instantly,' OpenDaylight gets bigger, Cisco gains even more bragging rights, and Ericsson makes a move on the server market.

HP's NFV division, announced in February, adds a big name: Prodip Sen, the former Verizon executive and soon-to-be ex-chair of the ETSI NFV specifcations group.

Everyone seems to be producing an ARM 64-bit chip these days, and Cavium, which announced its ARM plans in 2012, is no exception. But Cavium claims its advantage is

Carriers are sharpening their perspectives on NFV, and it shows in AlcaLu's CloudBand traction. Live-traffic trials are approaching, and the partner ecosystem is blossoming.

Analysts say router and switch growth has slowed or even stopped, and they don't think it's an anomaly. SDN is causing some buyers to hesitate, and the white-box movement

This week's news roundup includes the Palo Alto-Juniper settlement; PoC trials in NFV and storage; Ericsson's plans for new Silicon Valley digs; and ARM's data-center advance.

NTT claims it's the first provider to offer on-demand services, fulfilling a longtime promise of SDN and NFV and showing why the $525M acquisition of Virtela was a crucial

NFV performance can depend on where the functions get placed, so Cyan and Red Hat worked on OpenStack enhancements to give APIs some location control.

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 23, as we look at Cisco's latest security acquisition, an SDN-controlled 4K video services network, and more layoff news from HP

The ETSI NFV group is undergoing some leadership changes as it faces rapid membership growth as well as the end of its charter in 2015. It's time to decide

Prodip Sen has been a key voice for NFV as the chairman of the ETSI specifications group and a network architect at Verizon — but he's stopped doing at

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 16, as we look at the use cases most likely to be included in RFIs/RFQs this year and give you a

19-year HP vet Antonio Neri has been chosen to lead HP's networking division, SDNCentral has learned. He fills the vacancy created when Bethany Mayer got reassigned in February.

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 9, for news on EMC’s plans for hyper-converged infrastructure, HP’s $1 billion open cloud investment, and a surprising departure from Cisco’s

NFV is all about moving network functions onto servers, but what about the servers themselves? NTT wants to try putting them into a distributed architecture, and it's enlisting help

Our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 2 features Oracle’s new cloud infrastructure platform, highlights from Cable Show 2014, and what Michael Dell has to say about SDN. Check it

A touch of policy, a pinch of NFV-like virtualization — startup CloudGenix mixes it all together to produce what it claims is a new, disaggregated approach to the enterprise

Approaching NFV from the carrier network's point of view, Overture is ready to show off its complete Ensemble package, including an orchestration platform for the physical and virtual networks,

In this week's roundup: Ericsson shakes up Networks; VTEPs start shipping for VMware; Nuage turns 1 and recaps its customer traction; AT&T adds to Domain 2.0.

In SDN/NFV news this week: Cumulus shows its worth, Dell tests its NFV worthiness, Brocade hires another Cisco executive, and OpenDaylight picks a new board member.

A proposal to link OpenContrail to OpenDaylight is Juniper's first contribution to the SDN collective. It might be a sign that Juniper, after months of being a wallflower, is

In this week's news: BTI gets a CEO; ConteXtream and Guavus team up; Huawei starts an OpenDaylight testing center in Shenzhen; and OpenDaylight offers student internships for the summer.

This week's Interop-heavy roundup includes the 'Open Cloud Project,' new switches, a new SDN architecture, and new partner programs. Plus, find out who went home with the Best of

Yes, it's very early to be sizing up NFV. But you've got to start somewhere, and the process can highlight what questions are still lingering, as Dell'Oro Group found