What mattered to SDNCentral's readers in 2014? Our list includes SDN 2.0 planning, Cisco's policy-based networking, AT&T's Domain 2.0, and a whole lot of Juniper.

It's understandable that investors want to find a way into SDN, but the "SDN" companies might not be the right picks.

A founding participant in OpenDaylight and the project's first chairman, Inder Gopal has now followed other SDN leaders out of IBM's doors.

Check out what these vendors had to say about what they found interesting and cool in the network virtualization scene this year and what they foresee happening in the

"Network virtualizaton" needs more than a definition. To fully understand NV, you need to know the scene. Check out this list of SDNCentral’s "where to start" stories of 2014.

Following the revelation that a vulnerability went ignored for months, the open source OpenDaylight Project overhauls its security response measures.

Midokura has a lot of partners but few announced customer wins. Doubt surrounding the company could start to grow now that sales head Jim Lenox has left for a

HP updates NFV Director; Broadcom updates its OpenFlow platform; OPNFV adds members; Pica8 adds an investor; Edgewater and Big Switch add execs.

As machines get connected and users become more mobile, Cisco thinks it's got a play in collecting data and running analytics, a broad initiative for the company's Internet of

For the latest version of its carrier network virtualization service, ConteXtream tosses its proprietary controller in favor of OpenDaylight.

In this week's roundup: Juniper and VMware team up some more; HP will start reselling Alcatel-Lucent routers; a highly visible Cisco exec departs; a software-defined storage startup raises $53M.

Intel becomes OpenDaylight's latest Platinum member, committing to the half-million dollar membership level in order to gain a seat on the board of directors.

Saisei's FlowCommand product will now be available through the HP SDN App Store after being demoed during HP Discover in Barcelona.

A new division called Ciena Agility aims to let service providers assemble new services on the fly, using NFV to collect network functions not only from Ciena but from

With a virtualized test tool called TrueSpeed VNF, JDSU aims to restore some of the visibility lost in virtualized environments while also saving service providers some opex.

When Open vSwitch essentially ended up in VMware's hands, there was cause for some wariness. But the consensus seems to be that VMware has kept the project open and

A team of Stanford Ph.Ds led by David Erickson, author of the Beacon controller, have founded a startup and raised funding from Andreessen Horowitz, among others.

Remember OVDK? Now you won't have to. Intel is stopping development on its forked version of the open source switching project to join the mainstream Open vSwitch flow.

Recent Open vSwitch work has focused on improving performance. The key was to streamline the way the switch examines packet headers.

The Open Networking Foundation announces that its OpenFlow Conformance Testing Program is now open to non-members in an attempt to broaden the SDN ecosystem with a diverse range of

Startup Arkin Net raises $7M to produce an SDN analytics tool that operates on natural language (no CLI) and across the physical and virtual infrastructure of multiple vendors.

Aiming to make the WAN part of one big happy network, Nuage is offering Virtualized Network Services to extend its overlay networks out to remote enterprise locations.

Pica8 announces CrossFlow, a way to bring software-defined networking (SDN) to existing networks without disrupting what customers have already built.

As SDN patents proliferate, Cisco watches election results for signs of movement on patent reform.