<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2175670/lan-wan/extreme-binds-enterasys-gear-tighter-to-its-own.html">Extreme Networks</a> this week announced new products and technology partners for its <a href="http://www.extremenetworks.com/solutions/sdn/">Software Defined Architecture</a> data center product line.
Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks SDN venture has broadened its product line to tackle enterprise WANs, an increasingly vital market for the technology.
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<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2174532/lan-wan/juniper-broadens-sdn-for-carriers.html">Juniper Networks</a> this week introduced a virtualized version of its MX Series 3D edge router to fulfill carrier requirements for <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2173825/smb/understanding-how-sdn-and-nfv-can-work-together.html">Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)</a>.
Brocade this week rolled out new and enhanced campus switches designed to better support mobility, social networking and cloud data traffic in the enterprise.
Despite the building momentum behind OpenDaylight's open source SDN project, not everyone is behind it.
Japanese SDN company Midokura is giving away its keystone product.
The Internet2 this week said it can now demonstrate a nationwide virtualized multitenant network that operates as multiple discrete, private networks.
SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil "starter kits" designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews.
HP has unveiled a network virtualisation system for large enterprise and cloud providers designed to simplify network configuration.
A software startup debuted this week proposing software-defined networking to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2361465/cloud-computing/docker-101-what-it-is-and-why-it-s-important.html">Docker</a>, the open source software for creating <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2174150/smb/docker-challenges-virtualization-market-with-containers.html">Linux application virtualization containers</a>.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) challenges long held conventions, and newcomer Fiber Mountain wants to use the SDN momentum to leap frog forward and redefine the fundamental approach to data center switching. The promise: 1.5x to 2x the capacity for half the price.
Broadcom this week announced availability of new Ethernet switch silicon optimized for cloud-scale data centers.
Brocade this week unveiled an SDN controller based on open source code from the OpenDaylight multivendor and community consortium.
Citrix is laying out a new strategy to position itself as a "software-defined workplaces" company that enables its customers to have a mobile workforce that can access everything they need to be productive from anywhere and on any device.