Upstart ADC vendor A10 has its sights on turning Layer 4-7 functions into full cloud citizens, creating the automated environment that's available to most other cloud functions. That's piqued

Founder Tom Nolle is stepping down from CloudNFV, trying to avoid conflicts of interest as the NFV project moves into its commercial phase. Proofs-of-concept are on the way, and

The ONF adds wireless networks to its purview; EMC makes a pretty obvious cloud decision; Pluribus grows up a little more; SDN seeks its Charles de Gaulle.

A departure in the Marvell family; Egenera finds the SDN world waking up to Microsoft; Freescale open-sources a controller; and OpenDaylight adds members and contemplates what comes after Hydrogen.

VMware finally gets a CTO, a year after Steve Herrod left; Cyan and Procera won't bring post-holiday cheer to Q4 results; CloudNFV expands its potential 'as-a-service' arsenal; Microsoft might

Cisco isn't exactly the best fit for AT&T's Domain 2.0 plans; FireEye puts out $1 billion to add to its security arsenal; Cisco's newest switches might offer Broadcom with

To say it's been a big year for SDN and NFV would be beyond an understatement. Here's our look at some of the most-watched and most-talked-about stories of 2013,

Our community was generous in helping us cover the myriad issues around SDN and NFV in 2013. Here we list a few of our favorites that ask (or answer)

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — December 20, 2013

NFV has enjoyed a great year of popularity, now comes the hard part. As carriers and vendors start tinkering, they're learning about the obstacles — small ones and really

Defending Cisco's SDN approach; OpenFlow 1.3 gets test support from Ixia; SolidFire attracts cloud vendors to flash storage at scale; CENX helps the OSS automates Etherent services; a new

Google and HP update public clouds; Metaswitch furthers its open-source IMS cause; Plexxi produces a new switch for its optical networks; Napatech goes public, although you wouldn't know it

Amid this week's news: NFV makes progress, as shown by NSN and CloudNFV; ScaleXtreme debuts Advanced Cloud Management, targeting enterprise users new to public clouds; Extreme Networks gains more

NFV has to be about more than cost-cutting. As participants at the Software Telco Congress argued, it's got to be something more transformational, putting carriers on the faster, more

SC13 features some optical technology and a bit of SDN; Riverbed grooms a new image; Internet2's next big project is a hybrid cloud for universities; Ixia announces some switches

In the headlines this week: Cisco's Q2 guidance causes a freakout; Nuage Networks names customers; EMC tries out this all-flash-storage thing; Amazon talks about its own storage ideas; and

Here you'll find links to our Cisco/Insieme coverage (so far), which dominated the week. The OpenStack Summit took place on the other side of the world, creating a news

Noteworthy bits from the week: The TM Forum gets interested in the management side of NFV; Ixia strikes a deal for Net Optics; Brocade has an idea for OpenStack;

Rackspace takes a swipe at Pivotal's PaaS; Pica8 loves the command-line interface (sort of); Ixia's CEO becomes the latest false-resume story; Huawei pushes for SDN in the enterprise; Transmode

Last year, it was all about protocols; this year was about implementation. One more look at the recent World Congress in Germany, with summary links to all our coverage

Actually, is it really NFV's fault that MobileNext tanked? Analysts didn't think Juniper's product for the LTE mobile-network core ever had much of a chance, but Juniper can now

NFV lives! In demos, at least. Virtualized network functions (VNFs) were on display in Bad Homburg, Germany, last week, as NFV continued its quick progress. CloudNFV and Metaswitch say

While we were at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, there were apparently things happening in other places — of all the nerve. We present news from the processor

NFV was announced at last year's SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, and its one-year anniversary was a central topic at this year's show. Specifications and frameworks are set. Now