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Interconnection specialist Equinix has debuted a software-centric service leveraging network functions virtualization (NFV) to help its customers moving IT to the edge connect digital supply chains.
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Spirent Communications, specializing in testing solutions for the evolving software-defined networking space, announced what it claims to be the first standards-based network functions virtualization cloud testing platform.
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General availability of the final draft standard developed by the industry association in order to facilitate market growth is the last step before the comprehensive document is finalized and published, which is expected in mid-July.
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Riverbed, known for its Digital Performance Platform, has updated its software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) offerings, while also announcing SaaS Accelerator, targeting Software-as-a-Service apps such as O365, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Box.
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Tata Communications, a digital infrastructure provider, announced a new managed service that it says can help enterprises simplify their complex legacy networks by transforming them into customized multi-cloud native hybrid networks.
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Dell Technologies and Orange are exploring new technology areas -- such as near real-time edge computing and IoT services -- to meet the demands coming with 5G.
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London-based Colt Technology Services expanded its software-defined networking-based On Demand networking solutions to the United States and other new markets.
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ADARA announced a new beta offering that takes its software-defined wide-area network for personal clouds and Internet of Things (IoT) implementations to the mobile arena.
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Cisco Systems announced SD-WAN Cloud onRamp for CoLocation, designed to simplify deploying and managing software-defined wide-area networks for multiple branches distributed over several regions.
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A new cloud-based management tool from software-defined wide-area network specialist Cybera aims to increase visibility of operations on remote site networks.
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VMware Inc. announced a deal to integrate its SDDC platform with VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure from Dell Technologies, targeting on-premises datacenters and edge locations.
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Cologix announced a new self-service tool to ease enterprise software-defined networking connectivity to the cloud.
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Security specialist Fortinet announced what it claims is the industry's first application-specific integrated circuit for the burgeoning software-defined wide-area networking space.
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netElastic unveiled an enterprise branch router featuring software-defined wide-area networking to ensure mission-critical business applications are identified and prioritized over less important traffic.
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Versa Networks is yet another software-defined wide-area network specialist to provide its wares in a cloud-delivered managed service, a growing trend in the industry.
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Add Citrix Systems to the growing list of software-defined wide-area network vendors taking their wares to the cloud -- in this case the Google Cloud Platform.
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ADARA Networks unveiled a cloud version of its software-defined wide-area network solution, promising to reduce network latency and improve performance via real-time performance monitoring and programmability.
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Cisco Systems followed up on its ACI Anywhere initiative announced last January that seeks to extend its software-defined networking technology called Application Centric Infrastructure beyond the datacenter -- in this case to the AWS cloud.
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Israeli start-up flexiWAN has emerged from stealth with a software-defined wide-area networking offering that portends the "second wave of SD-WAN," marked by an open architecture in addition to open source software.
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Juniper Networks announced its SD-WAN solution is now available in a cloud-delivered "as-a-service" offering, with the aim of simplified management of disparate resources.
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The Open Networking Foundation announced a partnership that boosts software-defined networking in optical transport networks.
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OpenDaylight, said to be the most pervasive open source software-defined networking controller in the industry, is out in its 10th release as it celebrates its six-year anniversary.
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Cisco Systems this month announced new solutions that take its intent-based networking technology to the software-defined wide-area network, promising increased visibility and control for disparate branches.
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The benefits of software-defined wide-area networks typically start with cost savings, but Infovista says it's focusing on a neglected aspect of the next-gen SD-WAN transformation: the quality of application experiences.
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Big Switch Networks is the latest industry player to showcase new-age networking wares based on integration with the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project.