F5 Networks unveiled a new VNF Manager that it says is designed to simplify network functions virtualization (NFV) for service providers and mobile operators moving to software-defined networking ...

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 ...

F5 Networks introduced a virtual network function (VNF) manager to automatically scale capacity for a couple of functions in service provider networks. Those functions are Gi LAN traffic management ...

People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. But in ...

Cloud native networks are not SDN reborn but a fundamentally different way to look at networks. While SDN seemed to take physical network machines and virtualized them, CNFs are not merely ...

San Jose, CA Even in a currently slow networking market, innovative designs and critical decisions continue apace, as system builders prepare for the inevitable upturn. These decisions generally ...