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 Function Virtualisation (NFV) represents a paradigm shift in the design and deployment of network services, decoupling software implementations of network functions from specialised hardware.

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

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 ...

For decades, networks have been built on the same fundamental principle: dedicated hardware appliances for each network function. Need a firewall? Buy a box. Need load balancing? Purchase another ...