I have been keeping tabs on OpenFlow for the past few years, and I am excited to see increased awareness and interest in this technology as we approach Interop. Despite the strength of the Open ...

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 ...

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,” ...

With a new industry organization to promote it, routing protocol OpenFlow is about to give users unprecedented ease of control over the way their networks operate. OpenFlow enables software-defined ...

{Guest Post: This is a guest post written by Steven Noble of Router Analysis (routeranalysis.com). Steven is the main author and contributor to both the Router Analysis and SDN Testing Websites I work ...

The future of networking will be defined by software. That was the overriding theme after the first day of the inaugural Open Networking Summit, a conference dedicated to software-defined networking ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the heels of my post about Cumulous Networks last week, I had a chance to chat with Stu Bailey, founder and CTO of Infoblox, about the future of networking, and specifically OpenFlow. Stu is ...