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

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

The Internet of Things (or Internet of Everything) looms large when you consider the challenges CIOs will face in the next five to 10 years. Facing that challenge will

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.

Plans for connected-vehicle technology bear more than a little resemblance to what the networking industry has been doing with SDN and, especially, NFV. Maybe it's time to start talking

The major advantage of a logically centralized control plane is improved data visualization which makes intelligent decisions about how to use that resource in support of the applications and

SDN overlays are necessary because networks were static back when IP networking was established. Now, applications can move, and overlays can help the network cope — but overlays come

Yes VXLAN does need testing, even though it's 'only' a Layer 2/3 technology. The benefits of VXLAN can be realized more quickly by testing often, with realistic application traffic,

The Internet of Things is all fun and games until your refrigerator turns into a spambot. NFV has a role to play in handling security as our homes' connected-device

The metro is seeing tremendous traffic growth; cloud, content and service providers need visibility into apps; and the cost/revenue curves in today’s networks stink. Given those factors, how can

2014 Predictions on SDN and NFV by Kelly Herrell

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

One case study suggests how an overlay SDN model can be a key part of a hybrid cloud model, helping an enterprise adopt public clouds without having to migrate

This year more than last, in cloudy neighborhoods everywhere, SDN costumes are sure to be the most popular. Everyone wants to be SDN this year. Underneath the unicorn horn

Yes, SDN can help the broadband network, too. It's a matter of measuring consumption in real-time by taking telemetry data and exerting policy control on the fly — things

SRI International's Phil Porras unveils new groundbreaking SDN security research and tools, led by SE-Floodlight, which is a distributed reference implementation of a security-enhanced SDN controller. It's part of

SDN has a place in optical transport. With recent advances turning the optical core into more of a switched and meshed architecture, it's time to start dynamically provisioning the

While there is no magic solution to fix capacity problems, mobile carriers can use SDN to alleviate the stress on their networks and to make the Internet of Things

SDN's success rides not on arguments about OpenFlow or OVSDB, but on what it can do for applications. It's going to be about giving DevOps teams the automation, visibility,

What's going on inside the ETSI NFV group, and who are these guys, anyway? In this first of a series of posts about NFV, Marc Cohn discusses the group's

Campus Network Virtualization using an SDN Approach with a focus on slicing/traffic isolation lends itself to two main approaches, both of which have advantages over VRF-based legacy solution. Find

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