Last week I was at Upperside Conference's 20th annual MPLS +SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris, France, along with a record 1,500-plus attendees. What struck me were the number of loyal attendees, some ...

For 2013 and beyond, two of the most interesting and most used networking acronyms – and underlying concepts and technologies – have to be SDN (for Software Defined Networking) and NFV (for Network ...

At a recent convention, a break-out panel discussed the merits of Network Virtualization (NV) versus Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Until then, I thought they were the same. As someone who writes ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Here at SDxCentral, we receive a lot of requests to help people learn the 'basics' of software-defined ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. The technology industry loves two things above all else- three ...

SDN, NFT, and network virtualization are all new terms that are sometimes used interchangeably, but they each have different meanings, writes Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest ...

According to many industry analysts and influencers, software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are the technology game changers in 2015, especially within the ...

SDN, NFV & VNF are among the alphabet soup of terms in the networking industry that have emerged in recent years. Software-defined networking (SDN), network-function virtualization (NFV) and the ...

Telstra, using technology from Cisco, has launched a service based on software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technology that will enable business and enterprise ...

There’s a lot vendor activity these days – not always moving in the exact same direction – with regard to standardizing SDN (software-defined networking). But, if that’s not enough to make a network ...

Neil Bright is a research scientist and chief HPC architect at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Office of IT. The introduction of server virtualization not only led to more efficient use of ...