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sdxcentral.com | May 30, 2017

Cable operators deal with a very complex physical network that originated as the means to carry broadcast video and then evolved to also handle IP data. Today, Cisco unveiled its Remote PHY to help cable operators prepare for moving more of their network functions to the cloud....

sdxcentral.com | May 30, 2017

AT&T sees containers as a “really big and important part” of its network architecture plans. Andre Fuetsch, president of AT&T Labs and CTO at the telecom giant, said the company’s use of containers extends deep into its operations.“We have a very robust and extensive container strategy that’s not just confined to the core network or to our software stack sitting above it,” Fuetsch said. “It extends all the way out to the edge to the customer prem...

sdxcentral.com | May 16, 2017

IT communications provider NEC and Dell EMC announced the general availability of a new software-defined local area network (SD-LAN) system that offers the ability to manage multiple networks within an enterprise on a single infrastructure....

sdxcentral.com | June 05, 2017

NEC/Netcracker Technology recently demonstrated how its multilayer software-defined networking (SDN) controller could control both Infinera’s optical controller and Juniper Networks’ IP controller in service provider networks.NEC/Netcracker provided full visibility across the IP and optical network in labs of both Telefónica and Verizon. The demonstration was part of the Optical Interworking Forum (OIF)/Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Transport API project. The participants e...