Over the past couple of years, software defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a strong alternative for IT operations in the areas of WAN, data center and overlay solutions. The primary benefit ...

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 ...

A new horizon in how applications and network control can dynamically alter network performance and operations. The concept of Applications Optimized Networks (AON) has been around for many years.

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2014) - Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP portfolio of routing and switching products, extending the company's ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. OpenFlow, the exciting new ...

As an application developer, in my case, security applications, there is clearly a need for greater maturity of APIs, and perhaps for some consolidation of what we can expect from the control layer. I ...

The OpenFlow switching and communications protocol addresses packet routing on a software layer that's separate from a network's physical infrastructure. OpenFlow's major benefit is flexibility, ...

Interop 2011 could have been called The OpenFlow Show. Vendors were hawking OpenFlow switches and controllers, and a lab demonstration on the show floor displayed the traffic management technique and ...

One of the fun things about SDxCentral is the opportunity to talk to a wide variety of members in the SDN community. By engaging with traditional and cloud service providers, enterprises, network ...

While OpenFlow started out by exploiting the TCAM capabilities, it was not optimized for some simple forwarding applications such as a typical routing or a Layer-2 pipeline. In order to achieve flow ...