Facebook Testing Broadcom’s Open Compute Switches in Production
The company can now run its own network operating system and use its own SDN controller on Open Compute switches by the likes of Broadcom, Mellanox or Big Switch to optimize data delivery. Read More
View ArticleTelefonica, Red Hat and Intel Partner on Open Source NFV for Telcos
The solution will combine Intel Xeon chips, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a KVM hypervisor, Red Hat's OpenStack distro and OpenFlow network switches. Read More
View ArticleArista Shares Rally on IPO Day
Andy Bechtolsheim’s cloud data center networking company closes a successful debut day on NYSE. Read More
View ArticleHP Intros Latest SDN-enabled Switches
New SDN software and switches support OpenFlow, VXLAN, integrate with HP's OpenStack distribution. Read More
View ArticleCisco Acquires Swedish SDN Firm Tail-f Systems For $175 Million
Tail-f Systems offers multi-vendor network service orchestration solutions for traditional and virtualized networks Read More
View ArticleFacebook Breaks the Network Switch Up Into Modules
Social networking superstar’s custom-designed top-of-rack switch is disaggregated and acts like a server Read More
View ArticleCyan’s Planet Orchestrate Integrates Cloud, NFV and WAN
Solution seeks to bring together disparate network resources and orchestrate them centrally Read More
View ArticlePuppet Labs Certifies Network and Storage Vendors That Gel With its DevOps Tools
First certified vendors include Arista, Brocade, Cisco, Cumulus, Dell, EMC, F5, Huawei, NetApp Read More
View ArticleHP Launches Second-Gen Campus Network Switches with SDN Capabilities
Positions OpenFlow-enabled 5400R zl2 toe-to-toe with Cisco’s 4500 series Read More
View ArticleGoogle, Microsoft Partner With Network Vendors on New Ethernet Standard
Consortium formed to promote 25 GbE and 50 GbE connectivity between servers and top-of-rack switches Read More
View ArticleEquinix to Deploy Ciena Gear to Enable On-Demand Network Provisioning Globally
Colo provider takes core metro switching platform, SDN and NFV technology for data centers worldwide Read More
View ArticleData Center Expansion Brings CloudFlare Within 10 Miliseconds of 95 Percent...
CDN, web acceleration and DDoS protection firm doubles its footprint in Equinix data centers around the world Read More
View ArticleBig Switch Intros SDN Fabric to Bring Web-Scale Networking to Non-Web-Scale...
Big Switch Fabric combines Software Defined Networking with bare-metal networking hardware. Read More
View ArticleWith DevNet Cisco Renews Attempt to Court Developers
As company moves away from traditional hardware-centric approach, DevNet is an attempt to build an ecosystem of developers writing software with Cisco technology in mind. Read More
View ArticleHurricane Electric PoPs into Telx Data Center in San Francisco
Provider expands connectivity options for Telx customers, including access to its massive global IPv6 network. Read More
View ArticleCavium Buys SDN-Focused Switch Silicon Firm Xpliant for $90M
Expects accelerated network refresh cycle as industry adopts SDN. Read More
View ArticleCisco Unleashes Slew of ACI Products for SDN Into General Availability
Application Centric Infrastructure products start shipping; Cisco and partner NetApp deploy ACI in own data centers. Read More
View ArticleLatest Cumulus Linux OS Release Supports x86 Architecture
Commodity switch OS now supports two CPU architectures, five vendors. Read More
View ArticleProcera Adds 100GE-optimized I/O module for 600 Gbps in Single Chassis
Rolls out 100GE-optimized I/O module for its PacketLogic PL20000 platform and new RAN Perspectives quality of experience solutions for mobile broadband operators. Read More
View ArticleIntel Buys LSI’s Networking Business for $650M
Many Axxia products use processors designed by major Intel rival ARM Holdings. Read More
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