Another key milestone for the new Big Switch: The company is shipping Big Cloud Fabric, the flagship product behind its new strategy of providing hyperscale-style bare-metal switching for the

NFV is going open source with OPNFV, a Linux Foundation-based project that aims to develop an NFV architecture. The motivation: Carriers are impatient to get NFV into the real

With the Helium release, the idea of OpenDaylight release vehicles has been replaced with a choose-it-yourself menu based on Apache Karaf containers.

The OpenDaylight Helium release is starting to take shape, with group policy getting an early nod and Cisco's OpFlex interface being held back for Lithium.

It took a few more months than expected, but HP's SDN app store will open its virtual doors next week.

It's the latest attempt to 'domesticate' TCP/IP: Saisei's FlowCommand seizes control of network flows to prevent sessions from dropping.

Brocade has been amassing SDN talent and talking big about open networking. Now the company is producing an OpenDaylight controller to go along with its OpenStack framework.

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is launching a new certification program for engineers and marketing professionals to prove their SDN chops.

Details of the XPliant Packet Architecture are out, and the chips do indeed present a programmable answer to Broadcom's Trident switch chips and their 90% market share.

Our Weekly Roundup for Friday, September 12 brings you news on many 'firsts:' virtualized content caching, OSS as a service, and a new OpenFlow-enabled SDN product for Microsoft Lync.

Alcatel-Lucent has a combined packet-optical SDN approach that will get introduced later this year. And of course, it's going to take advantage of the company's not-so-secret weapon: Nuage.

This week's roundup the OpenDaylight Project adding members; Mirantis and Avaya making big claims about traction; A10 settling a lawsuit; and Ciena joining Domain 2.0.

SDN has become a 'battle of titans,' and Martin Casado is now a field general in that fight. He'll be working with sales teams on NSX, bringing Nicira's product

The HP NFV effort might have just taken a hit, as SVP Bethany Mayer has been hired away as Ixia's new president and CEO.

HP Claims Networking Gains and NFV Progress in Q3

Now Martin Casado is really the face of networking at VMware. He'll be the senior vice president of the Networking and Security business unit as Steve Mullaney departs. Meanwhile,

Ericsson and Ciena teamed up in February to provide Layer 0-3 networking and SDN. Now they've announced the first joint customer under that partnership: Australia's Telstra.

The Open Networking User Group welcomes new board members to help drive SDN and NFV deployments, while Array Networks and Penguin Computing release new products.

Arista managed to beat expectations for its first publicly reported quarter and announced a tighter alliance with an SDN partner that doesn't happen to be Cisco.

In its seventh quarterly meeting, the ETSI group spearheading network functions virtualization (NFV) voted to stick around for two more years and elected new leadership from AT&T and NTT

While SDN and NFV hold incredible potential to change the face of networking and infrastructure, more than half of respondents to a recent SDNCentral poll said they believe it

Only about half the companies polled by Juniper have any plans for SDN. But those that want SDN want it quickly, and they want it to co-exist with what

Broadcom leads in Ethernet switches, and Intel leads in processors. Now Cavium can better match up against both of them, with the pending acquisition of startup Xpliant.

In teaming up with Wi-Fi vendor Meru, NEC sees a chance to target enterprises' combined wired/wireless networks, which could benefit from the flexibility promised by OpenFlow.