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 ...

Cisco Systems and VMware have been slugging it out for years in the software-defined networking (SDN) marketplace, with plenty of rhetoric over whose technology is best. But according to partners that ...

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 ...

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Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) (SDN and NFV) are hot topics. They are clearly related, but how exactly are they similar? How are they different? How do ...

Over the last few years, there has been a lot of discussion in the trade press about virtualization. While some of these discussions make it appear as if virtualization is a new topic, it is not. We ...

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 ...

If you’re running any amount of compute infrastructure, you’ve already got a lot of “software-defined” things to help squeeze the most out of your hardware and networking. You’re running virtual ...

As nearly every other aspect of industrial technology goes digital, so too are industrial networks. And not just the communications that travel across these networks—which have long been digitized—but ...