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VMware announced vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0, with new network functions virtualization features purpose-built for communications service providers running modern 5G and multi-cloud networks.
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More communications firms are coming onboard with the open source networking organization launched earlier this year by The Linux Foundation.
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Communications firm BT has tapped Cisco technology to power a new global SD-WAN managed service designed to optimize network traffic with a software-defined overlay.
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By Trevor Pott
As much as preserving our data matters, access to that data is equally important.
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The Linux Foundation will offer a free course serving as an introduction to modern, open source networking technologies including software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, disaggregation, orchestration, network automation and more.
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Juniper Networks, having turned over its open source, software-defined networking Open Contrail project to The Linux Foundation, has come out with an expanded commercial enterprise offering based on the software.
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Organization using the VMware Cloud on AWS service are being targeted by JetStream Software with a new offering to help them migrate their on-premises virtualized workloads from to the AWS platform.
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By Tom Fenton
With so much to take in in only three days, I spent the trip back home decompressing and reflecting on everything I learned and experienced.
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Verizon is partnering up with Cisco and Juniper Networks to simplify its network through software-defined networking that will replace existing edge router services.
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The moves demonstrate the inroads software-defined networking is making into enterprises, branching out from its roots in academia and test labs.
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Verizon has teamed up with other major players in the software-defined networking arena to bundle virtualization services for enterprises looking for an easier onramp to the new technology.
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Juniper Networks' OpenContrail open source network virtualization platform based on software-defined networking has officially moved under the umbrella of The Linux Foundation and is now called Tungsten Fabric.
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It's a busy time in the software-defined networking and network functions virtualization arena, as multiple open source organizations backed by industry heavyweights recently announced new initiatives to foster their growth.
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By Trevor Pott
Beyond management applications there are more practical concerns that need to be borne in mind when thinking about engaging in hybrid and multi-cloud IT deployments.
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Verizon and Colt have demonstrated what they say is an industry-first breakthrough in software-defined networking orchestration in which they made near-real-time changes to bandwidth in each other's production networks.
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The Open Networking Foundation today announced next-generation software-defined networking interfaces and a new open source reference implementation for white-box switches to support them.
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Implementations of SD-WAN, one of the hottest areas of software-defined networking, are growing rapidly and are primarily driven by security concerns, according to new research from Versa Networks.
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AT&T, one of the leading companies furthering software-defined networking and other modern networking technologies, said its SD-WAN offering is becoming available in more than 150 countries around the world.
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Software-defined networking's move into the wireless arena is exemplified by Verizon's debut of its Software Defined Wireless Local Area Network (SD WLAN).
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The Apache Software Foundation today announced CloudStack v4.11, the newest version of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform for enterprise cloud orchestration.
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AT&T, one of the companies at the forefront of the modern software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) movements, said it will open source a homegrown project that champions the use of white-box hardware in such new-age installations.
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The Linux Foundation, said to host nine of the top 10 open source networking projects, is seeking to foster collaboration among those disparate offerings with a new "administrative structure" called the LF Networking Fund.
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The Cloud IP Platform from Versa Networks can help organizations implement SD-WANs on the Amazon Web Services cloud, according to research commissioned by the cloud giant.
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Verizon joined the Open Network Automation Platform, under the direction of The Linux Foundation, to boost industry efforts around software-defined networking and network functions virtualization.
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Cartesian says network virtualization efforts led by software-defined networking and network functions virtualization haven't lived up to their hype, hampered by a skills shortage, organizational/operational problems, multi-vendor integration issues and more.