Having put this off a couple of days to avoid April 1, we now present our list of the top SDN and NFV articles of March 2015, based on unique visitors aggregated during the last four weeks. Enjoy.

10. Ericsson Just Laid Off 2,200 Employees

Layoffs hit Ericsson's Sweden office, and rumors of cuts in San Jose. Read more.

9. England's Bristol is Building the First Software-Defined City

Will this be the world's first software-defined city? Read more.

8. Brocade to Acquire NFV Startup Connectem

Brocade's NFV stash now includes a virtual EPC for LTE networks. Read more.

7. Surprise! IBM Actually Has a Huge Team on SDN

Despite key losses, IBM is expanding in SDN. Read more.

6. Tail-f Alternative UBIqube Takes Multivendor Orchestration to the Edge

UBIqube's multivendor framework gets some attention. Read more.

5. Juniper Bursts Forth With New Routers, Switches, & Security

Major product announcements at Juniper Networks last month. Read more.

4. Ericsson Goes Hyperscale With Intel's Rack Scale Architecture

Intel's Rack Scale Architecture gets its first telco OEM customer . Read more.

3. Arista Likes Cavium as a Broadcom Alternative, Analysts Say

An analyst report envisions Arista ramping up with XPliant. Read more.

2. With OpenMano, Telefónica Open-Sources Its NFV Work

Telefónica is using open source to share parts its work on the NFV stack. Read more.

1. Docker Acquires Networking Startup SocketPlane

We told you someone was eyeing months-old startup SocketPlane. Read more.