OpenStack Summit kicks off in Vancouver.

Giddy up, news! It's time for the SDxCentral roundup!

Facebook engineers didn't want to work on networking. But that was before FBAR, as Najam Ahmad explains.

IoT greatness and the 'wrong' predictions about SDN are on John Chambers' mind in his last earnings call.

A network visibility tool lets Nuage users peer into any underlay network.

A new twist on counting SDN customers: Who's really committed?

Big Switch expands its reach to include VMware.

First Mission: Just get something done!

Amid chatter that it could be acquired by Ericsson, Ciena pounces first.

Check out SDxCentral's most-read articles of April 2015.

Executive shakeup? Let's talk about OpenDaylight and intent-driven networking instead.

What I learned in hacking school.

All the big vendors (well, not Huawei) get a piece of the action as Verizon goes all-in with SDN.

In the cloud and security realm, VMware's NSX has landed a notable customer.

Carrier SDN will drive new software called Lifecycle Service Orchestration, the next step beyond OSS/BSS.

HP is taking mobility to the campus with new products it announced today at Interop.

What would it take to watch every frickin' packet on the network?

Winner gets a pair of SDxCentral socks. We're not kidding.

A new spin on the white box turns it into a host for SDN/NFV functions.

Big Switch Networks and Cyphort have just announced a new partnership that will bring a SDN defense product to market by combining Big Tap and Advanced Threat Defense Platform.

Nokia hires an ex-Cisco exec; Cyan's 100G win; CradlePoint's Series B; and more.

Nokia shoots and scores, with assists from Sprint and the French government.

Well, that was quick. Two days after rumors started, Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent announce a $16.6B hookup.

A megamerger could be trouble for Ericsson and even for Juniper.