A research paper outlines the idea and sums it up nicely in one sentence: "We believe that future generations of OpenFlow should allow the controller to tell the switch how to operate, rather than ...

OpenFlow is an open source project borne of a six-year research collaboration between Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Last month, this approach was embraced by a ...

Why is OpenFlow needed? Vendors offer varying degrees of user programmability on their routers and switches. This can lead to limited functionality for traffic engineering and management, or ...

During a recent whiteboard meeting with journalists at VMware’s offices here, Casado talked about the development of OpenFlow, and his eventual belief that it was the virtual switches in ...

I, for one, believe OpenFlow remains on the right track to ... with challenging practical considerations that switch and router vendors have spent years learning to deal with, and will provide ...

The company will provide OpenFlow support throughout its portfolio of ExtremeOS-based Ethernet switches. At the same time, the company will support OpenFlow controllers from other vendors ...

Chip maker Broadcom has announced a new specification along with software and APIs to improve the performance of OpenFlow switches and to make it easier for hardware vendors to build products.

In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for servers and commodity ...

What is OpenFlow? OpenFlow is a programmable network protocol designed to manage and direct traffic among routers and switches from various vendors. It separates the programming of routers and ...