Over the past couple of years, software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a strong alternative to traditional networking approaches in the areas of WAN, data center networks, and network overlay ...

Network management and switching specification OpenFlow is being buoyed by industry support, according to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting ...

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 ...

* OpenFlow enables Ethernet network controllers to determine the path of network packets across a network of switches via software (SDN), not hardware. It is a standard supported by major switch ...

Are We Now In The Post-OpenFlow SDN Wave? It feels like that even OpenFlow could play a role in SDN (as also OpenDaylight seems to support it) when either more custom ASICs (likely) or more scalable ...

Northbound Networks has created the world’s smallest OpenFlow SDN switch which has been designed to be powerful enough to develop “world changing SDN applications”, but smaller to sit on your desktop.

Ken Cheng the VP of Service Provider Products, Brocade stopped by on theCube to discuss some announcements and the value of SDN to the service provider business. Having announced support for OpenFlow ...

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 10, 2014) - Meru Networks® (NASDAQ: MERU), a leader in intelligent Wi-Fi networking and the only wireless LAN vendor to have received OpenFlow™ conformance, today ...

The combination of open source software and commodity hardware holds the potential for unprecedented efficiency and operational agility but, despite the success of Web-scale giants like Google and ...

Brocade this week announced broad support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP product line to extend SDNs beyond research and academia and into commercial and enterprise networks. Brocade’s new 2x100G ...

If you have been following the rise of software-defined networking (SDN) recently as it makes its way into the thinking of enterprises the world over, it is likely you will have come across OpenFlow.