OpenFlow, the exciting new networking technology recently bursting out of academia and into industry, has generated considerable buzz since Interop Las Vegas 2011, which has been called "The ...

Will OpenFlow get us all on the same path to SDN nirvana? APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue ...

OpenFlow is a Layer 2 technique targeting LAN switches. LAN switching is the largest revenue market in networking, and data centers are the fastest growing segment of LAN switching and the place ...

HP has released updates to let 16 of its switches support OpenFlow software-defined networking technology, which could eventually allow businesses to reconfigure their networks more easily and ...

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

As organizations deploy virtualized applications and systems, networking and storage must keep up. One of the trends in this area is the adoption of software defined networking. Big Switch ...

OpenFlow is a specification that emerged from work atStanford to implement network virtualization and control in software. Google,one of the main proponents of the technology, recently revealed its ...

Extreme’s bringing OpenFlow into its line of Ethernet switches will enable businesses creating OpenFlow-based networking infrastructures with such controllers as those from NEC and BigSwitch to ...

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

A commercial version of Floodlight, the vendor's OpenFlow controller, will follow later this year, Big Switch says.

For OpenFlow, she sees the use case as dynamic packet redirection for network tap aggregation, lawful intercept/ CALEA, and topology-agnostic network segmentation deployments.