Hard on the heels of a similar pitch from AT&T, Verizon this morning is taking the wraps off a lineup of Virtual Network Services (VNS) that it bills as a natural extension of data-center ...

NV provides the ability to create logical, virtual networks that are decoupled from the underlying network hardware. NV creates a logical, software-based view of the hardware and software networking ...

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 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 ...

The people who brought you Open vSwitch (OVS) are taking a shot at putting network abstractions on top of those virtual switches. The result would be the ability to connect groups of virtual machines ...

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 ...

Intel Corp. has integrated virtual radio access network acceleration into its latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon system-on-chip, helping network operators gear up their efforts to deliver cloud-native features ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

Virtual networking startup ZeroTier Inc. announced today that it has raised $13.5 million in new funding to boost product development and geographic expansion. Along with the funding, ZeroTier also ...

Donato Buccella, CTO of Certeon, stopped by to discuss how network virtualization can improve the performance of both virtual and cloud computing environments. The entry point for the conversation was ...