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 ...

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 ...

Equipment maker Adtran is jumping on the software-defined networking (SDN) bandwagon. The company has introduced what it's calling a software-defined access architecture, Mosaic, which it says will ...

At this week’s Open Network Summit, Google spoke for the first time publicly about its custom data center network. For nearly a decade, we’ve been hearing, reading and writing about how Google was ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. As enterprises add mobile users, ...

The early progress has been good but we need to keep up the pace of innovation. As I prepared for the talk on software-defined network (SDN) APIs for UC I gave last week at Interop, I decided it was ...