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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to leverage open source solutions and services to meet mission requirements, no matter where the tactical edge lies. Providing ...