Software Defined Infrastructure: Communication service providers embracing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are endorsing OpenStack as providing the common API Service Framework required to deliver their applications and services with a lower time to market.

Michael Haugh, Product Marketing Director of Ixia, describes his company’s portfolio of virtualized solutions—from testing in the lab to monitoring traffic in the network—in this interview from SDN World in London. Michael explains the choices carriers must make as they [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Saar Gillai, HP Senior VP, says his two most often heard questions are: ‘How ready is the cloud?’ and ‘What NFV app should we do first?’ The good news, he says, is that the carrier grade scaled-out cloud [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: The Communications industry is at an inflection point, and Intel innovations are enabling transformation. AT&T’s John Donovan, senior executive vice president, AT&T Technology & Network Ops, explains how Intel technology is enabling the transformation of AT&T’s network.

Douglas Tait, Global Director of Marketing for Telecommunications at Oracle, discusses his company’s move into telecommunication networks in this interview from SDN World. Douglas describes the opportunities and challenges that come with transitioning into the network space, particularly as telecoms [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Sandra Rivera, VP, Data Center Group & General Manager, Network Platforms Group at Intel, speaks from Big Telecom 2015 in Chicago about how Intel is accelerating transformation in the network. She discusses how Intel’s Open Network Platform (ONP), [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: See how an SDN and NFV-based Intel Open Network Platform simplifies network complexity, speeds scalability, and reduces cost.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel ONP server reference design enables effective deployment & centralized control of virtualized appliances and network services on open standards.

Intel Chip Chat: Network Insights: Heather Kirksey, Director of Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) stops by to discuss the organization’s charter, membership and accomplishments. Heather explains that carriers want the agility to roll out services more quickly and that a [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Lynn Comp, Director of the Market Development Organization for the Network Products Group at Intel, stops by to chat about the advances that have been made in network virtualization and [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: As strategic approaches such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) become more mainstream, combinations of both OS-level virtualization and hypervisor-based virtual machines (VMs) often provide dramatic cost, agility, and performance benefits, throughout the data [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Guy Shemesh, Senior Director of the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent stops by to talk about how the CloudBand platform [See the full post…]

Intel’s Network Builders Program was launched last year, designed to accelerate the SDN and NFV industry. The aim is to work closely with the industry ecosystem, to innovate around Intel’s technologies.

Software Defined Infrastructure: DPDK is a software library that lets you do packet acceleration on general-purpose, x86 Intel processors. DPDK means you can bring big packet workloads onto a general-purpose processor and then use the additional cores on the chip [See the full post…]

Intel Chip Chat: Network Insights: Edward Pullin, Product Line Manager at Intel, stops by to discuss Intel QuickAssist Acceleration Technology for security and compression. He describes how the technology is helping Telecommunication organizations secure their data whether in motion or [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: This video shows how network virtualization overlays work and the key benefits that IT managers experience deploying a virtual network.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Sandra Rivera, VP and General Manager of the Network Platforms Group at Intel chats about new innovative service capabilities that [See the full post…]

Intel Chip Chat: Network Insights: Kelly LeBlanc, VP of Marketing at 6WIND drops by to chat about transforming the network from legacy hardware to virtualization. Kelly explains how 6WIND’s new Speed Series of products are accelerating the transition to virtualization [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Reviews memory management features and inter-VM (virtual machine) communications schemes that can be applied to dramatically improve performance and determinism for packet processing workloads in virtualized environments.

Intel Chip Chat: Network Insights: In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress, Maurizio Sturlesi , Chief Technical Officer at Amartus, Michael Kay, VP of Business Development at Procera Networks, and Martin Morgan, VP of Marketing at Openet [See the full post…]

Intel Chip Chat: Network Insights: Steve Shaw, Director of Service Provider Marketing at Juniper Networks, discusses the technology behind the next generation of mobile networks in this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress. He explains how SDN and [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress, John Healy, Intel’s GM of the Software Defined Networking Division stops by to talk about the current state of Network [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: This paper outlines an approach for Service Assurance in an SDN/NFV world that enables more open and deterministic service deployment and resource usage.

Intel Chip Chat: Network Insights: In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Eran Bello, VP Products and Marketing, at ASOCS discusses virtual radio access networks (RAN) and their virtual bay station solution. He shares insights on [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: This paper describes a solution stack tested to demonstrate high performance Evolved Packet Core (EPC) performance on Intel Xeon Processors.