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• Alcatel-Lucent ups the ante in unified access

  At Interop this week, Alcatel-Lucent updated its wired/wireless unified access portfolio with a new access switch, and SDN and application analytics extensions.

• Extreme binds Enterasys gear tighter to its own

  Extreme Networks has unveiled a software architecture for building SDNs and enabling interoperability between its technology and that of recent acquisition Enterasys.

• HP bucks up unified access line to better battle Cisco, others

  HP this week at the annual Interop Las Vegas conference is rolling out extensions to its unified access wired/wireless product portfolio designed to deliver consistent operation and management across the mixed infrastructure.

• SDN changing the shape of networking, IT careers

  Cisco recently announced new certifications for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) programmable networking initiative, its response to software-defined networking. The certifications are designed to tailor new roles for IT practitioners looking to transition their company's infrastructures to programmable, application policy driven, SDN-type environments.

• Dell unveils fabric switch, SDN controller

  Dell this week rolled out products designed to help customers build and scale cloud environments.

• Cumulus lands another SDN supporter for its Linux offering

  SDN company Midokura this week said it will support for Cumulus Networks' Linux network operating system in its network virtualization software.

• 11 tips to prepare for SDN

  Making the leap to SDN? Don't jump in blind. It helps to know what software-defined networking is, first off, and then what it can do for you.

• Forum created to push optical SDNs

  SDN start-up Vello Systems this week said it is forming an organization to promote open source and software-defined networking principles to optical enterprise networking.

• At Goldman Sachs SDN is déjà vu all over again

  Goldman Sachs has been doing SDNs for a long time. It just wasn't called SDNs when the investment giant invested in network programmability. It was just a bunch of APIs, software development kits and other code used to cobble together a large number of various specialized networks – trading, investment banking and the like -- across the globe.

• SDNs move from theory to reality

  SDNs have gone from concept to reality.

• NEC scales OpenFlow SDNs

  NEC this week rolled out a new version of its SDN software that includes an OpenFlow-based method for interconnecting data centers.

• Brocade seeks SDN edge with early OpenFlow 1.3 support

  Brocade this week announced broad support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP product line to extend SDNs beyond research and academia and into commercial and enterprise networks.

• SDN: Not just for carriers, DCs

  Analyst firm IDC has previously predicted that by 2016 the software-defined network market will be worth US$3.7 billion and account for more than a third of Ethernet switching in data centres. And while much of the SDN hype has been focussed data centres and carriers, it seems inevitable that it will find its way onto at least some campus networks.

• Is SDN your next security nightmare?

  The big buzzword in networking these days is Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a de-coupling of the data plane and the control plane that allows you to manage physical devices via a software-based controller sitting on a general purpose server.

• HP looking for new networking head

  HP is looking for a new leader for its networking division as Senior Vice President and General Manager Bethany Mayer is moving on to head the company's new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) strategy.