Members of Cisco's DevNet community will get APIC EM for free, which opens up the software to pretty much everybody. It's a way for Cisco to spread ACI knowledge

In this week's SDN-related news: Meg Whitman takes the chair at HP; VMware expands its cloud reach in Asia, while BTI does the same in Europe; and Juniper and

Heading off the opener-than-thou wars that are erupting among vendors, the IT executives in ONUG have defined what they expect out of open networks, from architectural elements to expected

In this week's roundup: the Cisco/Rackspace theory that just won't die, Midokura's adventures in partner-hunting, and IBM's plan to throw $3B in the general direction of the cloud.

Has little Midokura found a big partner? The startup was a winner of Nokia Networks' Open Innovation Challenge, but whether that translates into a partnership won't be known until

Specific pieces of Ciena's packet-optical SDN plans are falling into place. An SDN controller for Layer 0-2 is on the way, but Layer 3 will have to wait. Ciena

Nobody was surprised when NEC received the ONF's first OpenFlow conformance certification, but the second one has gone to a company that wasn't really talking about SDN a year

HP’s Cisco 'killer,' Equinix's on-demand virtual network, CloudPhysics' new funding and new features, a newly deployed software-defined WAN, Aryaka's spin on CDNs, and Mark Templeton's non-career-changing decision.

We don't know much about the business model behind Cisco's ACI and the APIC policy controller that's at the heart of it. But we now know this: While it's

Extreme Networks was an early proponent of OpenFlow, but of course, times have changed. Now that the OpenDaylight Project is looking serious, Extreme is building an OpenDaylight controller in

Policy-based networking (think Cisco ACI), a Yang-based configuration model, a full Layer 0-7 topology model — Google wants them all, and it's enlisting help to make them open-source.

Huawei's Justin Dustzadeh, speaking at a Linley Group event on carrier networks, says service providers want SDN to open up a best-of-breed approach as opposed to, oh, I don't

Network virtualization will top the SDN news out of HP Discover. That might not be earth-shattering, but HP officials say the point is that their SDN story has stayed

To the outside world, Prodip Sen's departure as ETSI NFV chair seems abrupt, but a source close to ETSI insists it's a calculated effort that began in April and

HP's NFV division, announced in February, adds a big name: Prodip Sen, the former Verizon executive and soon-to-be ex-chair of the ETSI NFV specifcations group.

Cisco's ACI has relegated a lot of other acronyms to the dustbin of "Whatever happened to ...?" Here's what happened to nLight, the converged packet/optical control plane that sounded

NTT claims it's the first provider to offer on-demand services, fulfilling a longtime promise of SDN and NFV and showing why the $525M acquisition of Virtela was a crucial

Gavin Newsom took the stage briefly as Cisco celebrated 25 years of Cisco Live events. John Chambers also took the stage briefly before starting his usual walk around the

Prodip Sen has been a key voice for NFV as the chairman of the ETSI specifications group and a network architect at Verizon — but he's stopped doing at

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 16, as we look at the use cases most likely to be included in RFIs/RFQs this year and give you a

As Cisco's ACI prepares for full availability, the company says customer interest is building quickly — although most of that might be interest in the plain Nexus 9000 without

19-year HP vet Antonio Neri has been chosen to lead HP's networking division, SDNCentral has learned. He fills the vacancy created when Bethany Mayer got reassigned in February.

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 9, for news on EMC’s plans for hyper-converged infrastructure, HP’s $1 billion open cloud investment, and a surprising departure from Cisco’s

For years, Cisco wouldn't touch PON or DSL. But now, the access network could have a role to play in SDN and in Cisco's Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and that