BAD HOMBURG, Germany -- SDN & OpenFlow World Congress -- The European software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) community has gathered here in the hinterland of Frankfurt to find out about the very many different views about, and approaches to, the programmable network. (See Deutsche Telekom: A Software-Defined Operator.)

Here are a few pictures from the event to give a flavor of who's here and what's hot. Click on the picture below to launch the sideshow.

Figure 1: Putting NFV to the Test Independent test lab EANTC is commanding the show floor stage with its network functions virtualization (NFV) proof-of-concept showcase.

— Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading