OpenFlow 2.0 doesn't exist yet, but Nick McKeown, Jennifer Rexford, and other researchers have crafted their vision of what it could be. It involves even more flexible switches that ...

Alcatel-Lucent has finally started to support two key technologies for creating software defined networks in its switches. The company said Tuesday that its stackable OmniSwitch 6900 Layer 2/3 ...

Nicira CTO Martin Casado, who created the popular OpenFlow protocol, says virtual switches are a better tool for network automation and programmability.

Switch Light is intended to offer users an alternative to proprietary, vendor-unique networking architectures, and accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow, the popular SDN API and protocol.

OpenFlow - What Every Switch Product Manager Should Know - what does network virtualization, software-defined networking &SDN mean to you.

An "OpenFlow Switch," according to the white paper, "consists of at least three parts: (1) A Flow Table, with an action associated with each flow entry, to tell the switch how to process the flow ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. , May 10, 2011 / PRNewswire / — Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced the availability of an OpenFlow-enabled, fully featured ...

Switches and routers are still needed, but without the intelligence in them, they may cost less. Both Cisco and Juniper are supporting OpenFlow.

I'd urge organizations to explore what suppliers such as Cisco, Juniper, HP, IBM and, yes, Big Switch Networks are doing to bring software, hardware and services based upon OpenFlow into the network.

OF-DPA defines and implements a hardware abstraction layer that maps Broadcom’s StrataXGS switch chipsets to OpenFlow 1.3.1 switches and pipelines.

Mingshou Liu, president and CEO of four-year-old Taiwanese SDN specialist, EstiNet, talks to Martyn Warwick about the necessity of simulating and emulating OpenFlow networks under SDN. Like any new ...