As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is changing everything. NFV makes the network more flexible, more agile, more programmable. That’s essential, because a service provider can offer the high ...

Cloud native networks are not SDN reborn but a fundamentally different way to look at networks. While SDN seemed to take physical network machines and virtualized them, CNFs are not merely ...

How much of an organization’s IT capabilities – including processors, storage and network – can be virtualized and moved into the cloud? Quite a bit, according to Craig Mathias, principal at advisory ...

Telecom and internet service providers have turned to faster networking technology—whether it be 5G, DOCSIS 4.0 or fiber-optic cables—to boost sales and profitability. But even with these new network ...

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 ...

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 ...

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) represents a paradigm shift in the design and deployment of network services, decoupling software implementations of network functions from specialised hardware.

The phrase software-defined networking (SDN) was coined when it was necessary to distinguish the concept from the hardware-based variety. Since that time, "SDN" has come to mean the type of dynamic ...