Virtual networks help admins evaluate new network security or monitoring options in a test environment, or assess how a new workload will affect the live network. Successful virtual network testing ...

Cisco has added another virtual router to its portfolio, this one based on the IOS XR operating system. It's called the IOS XRv 9000, and it was announced Tuesday with some other router enhancements ...

Virtual router software, or vRouting, replicates the functionality of a hardware-based Layer 3 IP routing, which has traditionally used a dedicated hardware device. All leading router suppliers, ...

Following the examples of Brocade and Cisco, Juniper has created virtual routers out of its MX line. The company is also applying Contrail to a prefab NFV cloud-in-a-rack. Like Cisco and ...