“OpenFlow is the first viable approach to software defined networking (SDN), and you can solve problems faster using SDN,” says Alex Reimers, a member of the technical staff at startup Big ...

2011 has been an exciting year for Openflow and software defined networking (SDN). Continuing my informal series on Openflow, I recently got the chance to have a conversation with Nicira CTO ...

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

OpenFlow is designed to provide consistency in traffic management and engineering by making this control function independent of the hardware it’s intended to control.

An OpenFlow-like approach to networking was not really possible until recently, not just because the idea is novel, but because network hardware was not capable enough to handle traffic in this way.

OpenFlow greatly augmented traditional routing protocols to accommodate core business requirements. The trouble with TCAMs. However, as the benefits of OpenFlow expanded in scope and capabilities ...

OpenFlow 1.4 improves the management of flows in multiple tables with sophisticated methods such as bundle messages, eviction and vacancy events, and synchronized tables among others.

OpenFlow 2.0 doesn't formally exist yet, but one possible shape of the protocol — a more flexible take on packet switching — is starting to form.. A research paper outlines the idea and sums ...

Google has outlined how it revamped its network, which ranks up there with large Internet service providers, via an open source networking technology called OpenFlow. Wired's Steven Levy outlined ...

OpenFlow is used to implement SDN (software-defined networking), and enables a standardized way of delivering a centralized, programmable network that can quickly adapt to changing network ...

Scaling OpenFlow deployments. Sudhir Modali, Pica8. SDN has great potential, but OpenFlow was initially limited by its dependence on expensive memory devices. New ASICs have changed all that. April 05 ...