SAN JOSE, Calif. — You have to hand it to AT&T’s public relations team. When AT&T introduced its Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management, and Policy (ECOMP) platform in March, it was announced by ...

The top IT initiatives of enterprise network managers are cloud and software-defined data centers, overcoming server virtualization’s dominance for the past 10 years, according to Enterprise ...

As with most innovations, challenges loom large with software-defined networking. By decoupling the data and control planes of traditional networks, software-defined networking promises a new ...

For as long as anyone in the networking world can remember, management of local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) has been distinctly different. LANs were primarily the responsibility ...

Verizon last week joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project, under the direction of The Linux Foundation, in part to boost industry efforts around software-defined networking (SDN) ...

Network functions virtualization (NFV) enables IT pros to modernize their networks with modular software running on standard server platforms. According to ETSI, the goal of NFV is to transform the ...

With software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) steadily gaining traction in the new-age networking space, industry association MEF has announced a new certification ...

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 ...