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 ...

Network functions virtualization is an architecture of network services -- usually Layer 4 through 7 -- deployed as software, often as virtual machines, and separated from the underlying 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 ...

Network virtualization works by abstracting and isolating network applications and services from the underlying network hardware devices and physical infrastructure. The overall concept of ...

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 ...