“Cloudifying” maybe, virtualizing yes. Now that policy control functionality is becoming virtualized, it offers MNOs even more compelling solutions that deliver.

Interest in NFV remains strong. In this meeting of firsts, Marc Cohn discusses the new leadership, organization, and renewed focus on implementation.

Forging partnerships and other key elements and considerations to help you deliver on the SDN vision.

CSPs need to begin preparing now. Here are five steps needed to secure your transition to this new virtualized environment.

Open Daylight Chair and Brocade Chief Scientist David Meyer discusses the impact of machine learning, neural networks and AI on the future of the data center and beyond.

Take a look at these five emerging use cases for SDN that will encourage more companies to adopt these in their networks.

Operators need to revamp their processes and skills too. This article covers the operational side of the SDN and NFV transition.

Set aside different approaches, competitive positions, and internal objectives for the benefit of the network operators. Marc Cohn discusses the recent Intent-based Summit gathering outcome.

Intent-based networking is progressing with properties that deliver all kinds of benefits. David Lenrow discusses the benefits to building intent-based SDN systems.

Wi-Fi in the past 10 years has redefined network expectations. This featured article calls to converge networks for unified wired and wireless access to prepare for the next step

Without a doubt there are some must-have gadgets for 2015 as shown at the International CES conference in Las Vegas, but forget wearables and gizmos. It's time to talk

This valuable article aims to address various factors that operators should consider while evaluating SDN and NFV technology solutions.

The year 2014 will go down as the “Year of the Hack.” What projects will help keep 2015 from being “The Year of the Hack, Part 2?”

Unless we take a concrete step to clarify the term “open” it is at risk of becoming another cliché. Creating a commonly understood context and taxonomy can help us

It's an exciting time for the evolution of NFV. Find out where we are in the NFV lifecycle and the operational areas that will soon come into focus.

Neela Jacques of the OpenDaylight Project explains why community is critical for an open-source project and what common threads successful projects share.

Learn how the Internet of Things (IoT) is taking a huge leap forward with the ability to manage all gateways and networks.

ETSI Network Functions Virtualization Industry Specification Group (NFV ISG) convened its eighth meeting and NFV Phase 2 begins.

A number of authors claim that SDN is dead. Interestingly enough these same authors then go on to call for SDN 2.0 as if history won't repeat itself.

In the WAN, where the optical transport network plays a key role, SDN is now beginning to emerge as a new technology tool that offers the promise of managing

Focusing on the network specifics of OpenStack's role, this article also touches on the compute and storage needs and what will need to be included in the emerging OPNFV

Public cloud providers excel at creating standardized virtualized instances, but this isn’t always ideal for the consumer who needs a variety of custom options.

Charlie Ashton summarizes the cost of downtime in telecom networks and how this financial impact might be affected by NFV from his talk at the recent SDN and OpenFlow

From the very basics to carrier-class SDN. Here's a perspective of carrier SDN vs enterprise SDN viewed from the lens of SDN architectural characteristics.