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 ...

NFV is about moving more network functions into software that runs on industry-standard hardware. (It's not the same as network virtualization, which is about creating network connections on the fly.

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 ...

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 ...

Wind River Open Virtualization Profile delivers extremely low latency that rates among the industry’s best, as well as high performance that rivals physical devices. Services can be run flexibly ...

The industry has high hopes for network automation. Industry research, as well as our own work, indicates that IT and networking professionals believe that many network management tasks can be ...

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a paradigm shift in telecommunications and data-centre architectures by decoupling traditional network functions from specialised hardware and ...

Paul Stuttard, director, Duxbury Networking. Network function virtualisation (NFV) is a transformative technology that promises to restructure the way network environments are constructed and managed.

Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its new Carrier SDN and NFV Hardware and Software market size and forecast report, which tracks network functions virtualization and ...

Bethany Mayer, who for almost three years oversaw Hewlett-Packard's $2.5 billion networking division, is taking on a new challenge at the technology giant. In February, Mayer was tapped to lead a ...

While the advantages of virtualization are widely acknowledged with regard to servers, desktops and storage devices, this is also leading military organizations to examine how virtualization can be ...

Collaborating with network service providers, hyperscale companies, and network equipment manufacturers, Dr. Levi Perigo’s research vision is to enhance networks by making them more programmable and ...