Jack Pugaczewski shares some real-world insights into how CenturyLink is revamping their OSS/BSS systems and introducing SDN.

Ethernet speed transitions have garnered close attention from networking industry vendors, consumers and analysts, as they trigger new technology buying cycles & periods of rapid change in the Ethernet

SDN startups are all at varied levels of their lifecycle -- from slideware to revenue -- with different levels of success. Take a look at some of the habits

SDN and NFV, if fully realized, can benefit carriers, but that's only part of the story. Real-time visibility is critical to successful SDN and NFV rollouts and a key

Read about the shifting to NFV: the service velocity, and the resulting democratization of applications and services that come from a NFV architecture.

A Software-defined networking market transition enables unprecedented value from our networks. Read more about the SDN market and an open, evolutionary approach that is required.

IT operations historically have adhered to the philosophy that maintaining stability=good, taking risks=bad. But today’s faster-paced business environment demands more responsive change control. DevOps practices can help IT professionals

This article is about Facebook and the Wedge, startups forging deals combining SDN with powerful commodity hardware and the SDN world joining next-generation infrastructure.

While traditional vendors rush to show the world how they can support virtualized functions tuned to their way of doing business, it is unlikely that all vendors will survive

With Cisco's recent acquisition of Tail-f, you might be wondering which Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups could be next. SDNCentral has the full analysis, including a list of the

Online shopping platform Wanelo brings together more than 10 million registered users and 200,000 stores. After Wanelo moved to the cloud, it needed a way to manage configuration —

The Arista IPO is nice and all, but Arista isn't an SDN pure-play. Other SDN startups take a more radical approach to software-based networking, and they're plentiful enough to

Arista's IPO could do something that markets haven’t seen in a long time: turn networking into a 'hot' sector. And plenty of pre-IPO companies are waiting to follow suit.

Surrounded by mystery and controversy, and dogged by apathy, DevOps is a bit misunderstood. Really, it's about taking some well established principles of software development and applying them to

Whether it’s Domain 2.0 or a new enterprise SDN, large network projects face many impediments to success. Here's what AT&T's former CTO suggests you do about it.

With the advent of network functions virtualization (NFV), let's step back and remember that carrier-grade networking is a daunting task, one that goes beyond the tenet of high availability.

David Meyer clues us in on the lessons learned from a year elbow-deep in open-source. Code is the coin of the realm, as they say, but sustainable value comes

One theory about SDN is that it will give rise to a wave of white boxes, or bare metal switches. But given the number of unknown factors still floating

NFV is gaining significant momentum in the industry. In response, the NFV ISG has set an aggressive timescale to release the initial set of technical documents approving the future

OpenDaylight has a steep learning curve for beginners, but it still proved a worthy platform in this small December hackathon, where five teams of SDN beginners got their fingernails

2014 Predictions on SDN and NFV by Kelly Herrell

With recent movements by Juniper's OpenContrail and ON.LAB's ONOS in the last few months, it looks like 2014 might be the year where controllers duke it out for dominance.

To encourage IT organizations to move off the SDN sidelines, consultant Jim Metzler has created a mock RFI. Find out more, and hear his take on the state of

NFV sprang up quickly, but industry-changing innovation does not happen overnight. Even for a carrier that wants NFV for one specific service, it's worth investing in a full platform