The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Trying to negotiate SDN-enabled hardware today is not an easy thing to do. This is primarily due to ...

As I look over the research being presented at the Sigcomm HotSDN workshop this week, I am amazed at the activity the software-defined networking (SDN), network virtualization, and specifically, ...

If OpenFlow can get to this level of pragmatic functionality, simplify network architectures, and streamline network operations it may be a “sure thing.” If OpenFlow gets “embraced and extended,” ...

Some say OpenFlow and software-defined networking are more useful to huge data center-driven companies and network operators than to the enterprise As most participants at the inaugural Open ...

APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements ...

This is where we want to go. I definitely agree that OpenFlow can take us there, if someone uses it to build a very good product. AF: Because it’s open, OpenFlow makes it easier for developers to ...

OpenFlow start-up Big Switch Networks is submitting its controller software to the open-source community in order to catalyze an ecosystem of application developers, according to GigaOm. The Big ...