Noteworthy bits from the week: The TM Forum gets interested in the management side of NFV; Ixia strikes a deal for Net Optics; Brocade has an idea for OpenStack;

The battle against overlay networks is on. As Cisco prepares its Insieme launch, Big Switch is starting beta tests for its 'P+V' strategy for unifying physical and virtual networks.

Cisco launches Insieme at long last on Nov. 6. What's in the box? Cisco has dropped plenty of hints about the approach, which is in opposition to VMware's, and

Isn't 33% year-on-year growth awesome? Not when investors were expecting something closer to 50%. For the second quarter in a row, Cyan's earnings growth didn't match what analysts were

QFabric has been boiled down into software, meaning it can now be applied to smaller-scale data centers. That, and a new line of QFX top-of-rack switches, are just part

Rackspace takes a swipe at Pivotal's PaaS; Pica8 loves the command-line interface (sort of); Ixia's CEO becomes the latest false-resume story; Huawei pushes for SDN in the enterprise; Transmode

Last year, it was all about protocols; this year was about implementation. One more look at the recent World Congress in Germany, with summary links to all our coverage

NFV lives! In demos, at least. Virtualized network functions (VNFs) were on display in Bad Homburg, Germany, last week, as NFV continued its quick progress. CloudNFV and Metaswitch say

While we were at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, there were apparently things happening in other places — of all the nerve. We present news from the processor

Sound gross, doesn't it? The idea is to get a dialogue started about SDN's role in the radio-access network, a topic likely to be featured during Friday's mobile-network sessions

Large carriers are ready for SDN, but getting the right technology — and implementing it in a way that doesn't wipe out existing revenue — is going to be

After saying 'no' so many times, the ONF has relented and will at least look at what a northbound API should eoncompass. Whether a standard comes out of it

Creators of the Xen hypervisor have turned their eyes toward software-defined storage. Coho uses off-the-shelf parts, including an SDN switch, to make enterprise storage more agile and less of

Infinera, Broadcom, and ESnet have demonstrated their latest work on multilayer SDN, showing provisioning and optimization that highlights the ONF Open Transport Switch. It's work that moves optical networks

Sonus virtualizes its session border controller, coming up with what might be an interesting NFV example to watch; IBM patents a virtual-machine-moving application; and Big Switch strengthens ties to

Big companies have a track record of trying to 'out-advocacy' each other, and that's why OpenDaylight continues to fall under suspicion in some quarters. One VP at Canonical wonders

Not all SDN applications will be completely new. The first waves will take a basic focus: creating parity between 'SDN' and existing networking gear. That's a good thing, as

In this week's news roundup: Microsoft states the case for Hyper-V and NVGRE against VMware's NSX; OpenDaylight grows again; Pivotal acquires its way into mobile applications; Alcatel-Lucent gathers NFV

Two announcements show how SDN and NFV might become the norm in certain product areas. Transmode gets serious (and standards-based) about multilayer provisioning, while RAD moves NFV to the

Telcos' OSS and BSS systems don't exactly have a hip, up-to-date image. That's going to become a problem as SDN emerges, upending everything the old software knows about the

Stop arguing about whether vendor-driven openness counts as truly 'open,' In the eyes of Margaret Chiosi of AT&T, any openness is good — but it has to provide something

Maybe so. The Interop keynotes didn't enlighten much, if you're already on the SDN bandwagon, but they reinforced the idea that what we're calling 'SDN' will be normal networking

Call it an attempt to gentrify the neighborhood. HP hopes and SDN app store and an SDK will help a community bloom around its products by helping developers get

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup – September 20, 2013