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.

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

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.

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.

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

ETSI NFV Group Elects New Leaders and Repositions for Phase 2

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

SDN and NFV vendors need to sharpen their messaging. Let's learn from our history so we don't repeat the same mistakes. Read more about what vendors need to do

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

SDN and NFV can pave the way to heavier automation and a software-defined infrastructure. But that road is full of obstacles related to visibility, security, and the language used

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

Extending the argument about how NFV can help mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), we look at how Amazon- or Google-sized MVNOs, in turn, could apply big data to generate

Implementing NFV in the wireless network could bring previously unheard-of levels of visibility and control into the MVNO market by giving wireless-service resellers a piece of the network to

While it's clearly not a conceptual requirement to implement SDN and NFV together, the technologies complement one another and work well together in supporting a software-defined data center.

Network Functions Virtualization offers a key solution by delivering an alternative platform to create services and applications on flexible network architectures. However, if the proper software architecture is not