HP and Wind River team up to offer carrier grade, open source solutions for CSPs looking to meet demands as they transition to network functions virtualization (NFV) environments.

In a long-anticipated move, On.Lab is launching the ONOS operating system as open source code, potentially giving carriers an SDN alternative to OpenDaylight.

For Midokura, it's an attempt to expand a known SDN product. For newcomer Akanda, out of DreamHost, it's "Ceph: The Sequel." Both believe open source code is the key

Vendor lock-in is on some network architects' minds as SDN starts becoming more commercial. If white box switching can build momentum, it could find fans quickly.

Meru puts up an app store and a network dashboard, part of the company's push to bring SDN and unified management to WiFi networks.

Now you can have a slice of the Internet2 backbone. A new feature allows for network virtualization at the hardware layer, letting users run private programmable networks.

An open model for multivendor BGP configuration and policy is a first step in Google's quest to create an open model for the entire network.

In this week's update: New features, and a new exec, for Microsoft Azure; add-ons for Arista; and new friends for the Open Compute Project.

With optical vendors itching to get into SDN, Ciena and Ericsson think OpenDaylight could use a common data model for multilayer controllers.

The growing rancor between Cisco and EMC is hard to deny, but when they say EMC can free up VCE by taking majority ownership, they might have a point.

It seemed only a matter of time before EMC absorbed more of the VCE joint venture. A deal reportedly coming this week could make it happen.

From last week's conference in Dusseldorf, Germany: thoughts on SDN, NFV, and open source — and the state of Tail-f within Cisco.

From the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, Dan Pitt talks about the ONF's next stage, the 'default' status of OpenFlow, and the disappointing side of open source.

Last week SDNCentral was in Dusseldorf, Germany for the 2014 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. Check out our Day 4 highlights and beyond as we continue to add new

ProgrammableFlow is now priced to move — not because NEC has to clear the lot, but because smaller SDN deployments are becoming a real business.

In another sign that vendors are taking OpenDaylight seriously, Dell is ponying up to become the project's tenth platinum-level sponsor.

As NTT Docomo expands its vEPC work, the carrier really wants NFV to provide reliability and cost savings, as Tatsuya Nakamura explained at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress.

Three big names have left Red Hat to found — what else? — a Docker startup. They think Open vSwitch integration is key to scaling the network to accommodate

After more than a year of SDN radio silence, Coriant unveils Transcend, an SDN portfolio and plan that includes a controller, an orchestrator, and an eye toward transport SDN.

A multivendor control plane is cool, but the first questions it invites are "Where's Cisco?" and "Where's Juniper?" Cyan finally has an answer, but only at Layer 2.

HP is separating PCs and printers from enterprise — not a new idea, but one that could have extra meaning now that SDN and NFV have become ensconced in

Rumors peg Big Switch and Pluribus as possible acquisition targets — and more generally, SDN might be mature enough for OEMs to start plugging some holes.

Last year, Sonus announced a way to put a session border controller (SBC) onto a Juniper router. Now the companies are taking the next step with Juniper Contrail.

Well, you didn't expect him to join Cisco, did you? Replaced as Big Switch CEO last year, Guido Appenzeller will continue the SDN fight, this time with an established