In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

For decades, networks have been built on the same fundamental principle: dedicated hardware appliances for each network function. Need a firewall? Buy a box. Need load balancing? Purchase another ...

People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. But in ...

Bidding to become a major player at the heart of telecommunications infrastructure for edge computing, VMware Inc. today announced the launch of its new vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0 infrastructure ...

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

Today's data centers remain the nerve center of the enterprise, and automation is powering new levels of agility and digital transformation. Read now With the addition of Network Edge, Equinix is ...

Remember network functions virtualization (NFV)? It seemingly only just arrived along with other disruptive, next-gen networking advances like software-defined networking (SDN) to shake up the ...

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has the potential to advance significant change in the way telecom networks are built and operated. Led by seven major communications service providers, NFV ...

The OpenDaylight Project has announced the ninth major update of its software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) platform. The platform provides an open source SDN ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Communications service providers (CSPs) are being challenged to transform their carrier network infrastructure (CNI) to create new business network services, ...

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is revolutionizing the way communications service providers (CSPs) operate and deliver services. Red Hat provides an open, scalable, high-performance, reliable, ...