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

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

OpenStack is not enough. NFV needs an app-centric architecture that includes monitoring and supports containers that go beyond Docker.

Our NFV Insider series continues as Marc Cohn explains OPNFV, the newly formed open source effort aimed at creating a platform to help push NFV toward deployment.

If there is a technology moving as quickly as SDN, it has to be photonics. SDN coupled with optical switching at Layer 1 allows the physical network to be

Here's an overview on validating OpenStack Neutron network module and plugins.

What are the landmark deals in the SDN game so far? Check out analyst Scott Raynovich's list and see what he expects next from the M&A machine.

Learn how increasing the performance of the virtual switch in an NFV platform causes very significant improvements in service provider opex.

Each Network Function has a unique set of performance requirements. Learn how these requirements become even more critical when we consider control plane virtualization versus data plane virtualization.

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

Explore why virtualizing a self-organinzing network (SON) is beneficial to operator to deploy SON on top of NFV for optimal network management and why self-organizing networks’ true home is

What can a network engineer learn from DevOps to improve their work? Here are seven DevOps practices that are potentially valuable for IT professionals.

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

In NFV, the distinction between management and orchestration of VNFs is an emerging and nebulous area. Here's one take at how the two differ and how they work together.

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

The DevOps matrix can be an effective tool when it comes time to catalog and roll out DevOps in your organization. Based on an approach by IT consultant Patrick

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

SDN for transport networks — Layer 0 and Layer 1 —is easy to talk about, but real-life 100G and ROADM networks have a lot of complexity to consider. Finding

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 —