Neela Jacques of the OpenDaylight Project explains why community is critical for an open-source project and what common threads successful projects share.
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
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.
Is it backwards day at the school of SDN? Too much attention is going toward the SDN equivalent of assembly language, rather than the area closest to the paying
New traffic patterns from the likes of Netflix are causing lots of hairpinning and 'hot potato' traffic handoffs, all of which consume expensive PE router ports. Here's how ISPs
A few examples of NFV applications show why the technology is getting traction with both service providers and OEMs, considering the variety of potential benefits the technology could unlock
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.