Carrier Ethernet equipment can be a prosperous niche, but Overture decided last year that the future was it software. It's now trying to establish an SDN and orchestration framework

Google, Amazon, and Cisco elbow each other in cloud services; a big name leaves Facebook; Cumulus' bare-metal switches score a victory; and the Linux Foundation studies the benefits of

Metaswitch's open-source Project Clearwater is going to fuel the growth of Tiscali's successful Indoona service for over-the-top voice and messaging. From the vendor's point of view, it's an good

Dell has been big on open-source lately, dealing with Red Hat, CloudNFV, and OpenStack. On the latter front, it's introduced code to connect its fabric to an OpenStack cloud,

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, March 21. This SDNCentral Roundup includes news on an SDN-based IP and optical network, WAN optimization for the cloud, and a new

Everyone loves the ideas of open-source and open systems, but how happy would they be to implement them? A survey commissioned by OpenDaylight shows operators have some predictable concerns.

This week: Tons of OFC news including Intel's 800G cables, Coriant's product plans, and MRV's HTML5-based service delivery software, plus the 'first' cloud-based load balancer and the SDN angle

A busy week in SDN and NFV, thanks to the Open Networking Summit. In addition to Infonetics' analysis of a slow Q4 for routers and switches, we have items

The SDN machine is making good progress, but: Enterprises don't get it, ordinary data centers need better use cases, and there's a lack of success stories that don't sound

More than a token SDN movement, AT&T's Domain 2.0 is about 'radically reshaping the entire wide-area network,' as keynoter John Donovan told the Open Networking Summit. He wants to

At Mobile World Congress, everybody loves Telefonica; Martin Casado tells RSA about security's Goldilocks zone; Napatech and VSS Monitoring advance network monitoring; Europe gets more bare-metal switching; storage gets

At Mobile World Congress, little-known startup Affirmed Networks got a surge of attention after being picked by AT&T to work on the LTE evolved packet core (EPC). It turns

With so many vendors showing off NFV versions of evolved packet cores (EPCs), AT&T's choice of a Domain 2.0 partner was a surprise: startup Affirmed Networks. It's an indication

HP, Wind River, and Broadcom are coming to Mobile World Congress with efforts to build an ecosystem to nurture the development of NFV. It's going to be a lingering

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, February 21. We’ve got information on an upcoming NFV demo at Mobile World Congress, new upgrades and platforms for network visibility, and

It sounds like NFV is going to be all over Mobile World Congress next week. Alcatel-Lucent is talking about three mobile-network areas that it's focusing NFV efforts on, resulting

Yes, it's another Cisco acronym related to SDN. The Evolved Services Platform is an orchestration facet of the Open Network Environment (ONE), and some of its first uses —

Bethany Mayer has been highly visible as the head of HP's networking business and its aggressive push into SDN and OpenFlow. Now, HP is reportedly calling on her to

True love, or a Domain 2.0 fling? Ericsson is exiting the optical networking business in favor of working with Ciena, a possible sign that AT&T and other customers are

It's Mobile World Congress time again, and Ericsson has lots to say about the mobile network. It's going to be saying a lot about NFV, SDN, and cloud services,

The implications of Microsoft's cloudy new CEO; more pressure on Juniper from Elliott Management; NEC gives part of ProgrammableFlow to OpenDaylight; Big Switch adds another former Juniper exec.

A bit of virtual knowhow has paid off for Shenick in the form of an acquisition. Aeroflex sells test equipment to the wireless industry and will now own TeraVM,

For the second time in a month, a lead engineer from Juniper is joining Brocade's team. Tom Nadeau, who helped literally write the book on SDN, will lead a

IBM considers a $1 billion SDN sale (or maybe not); VMware collects more NSX customers; Mellanox tries something new with its Ethernet chip; the ONF expands its OpenFlow testing.