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 ...

Cisco’s OpFlex protocol is intended to maintain control intelligence in the network infrastructure itself instead of centralizing it in a separate controller, which is the essence of the OpenFlow ...

The company, apparently, views SDN as a real threat. And well it should. In SDNs the control plane is separated from the data plane and network control handed off to servers, diminishing the ...

Tier-1 carrier perspectives provided an early highlight of the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, held this week in Bad Homburg, Germany. The general message was that the capabilities of software-defined ...

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 ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. It's possible that OpenFlow is the next big thing. It's more likely that Software Defined Networking, ...

Santa Clara, CA: When the Linux Foundation announced that it had gotten ever-warring networking vendors to agree to work together on the open-source software-defined network (SDN) project, ...

FARMINGTON, Conn., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Tech executives and system administrators can't stop buzzing about software defined networking (SDN). Having redefined the archaic methods of ...

An approach to designing and operating large-scale networks that is based on programming the forwarding decisions in routers and switches via software from a central server. Software-defined ...

Today, as the IT environment continues to evolve, Software-Defined Networking appears to be the network architecture of the future, according to industry experts like Mills. While conventional ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN), originally implemented in data centers, has become a popular discussion topic across the ICT industry. It has helped companies adjust network structures and ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a way to virtualize networks for ease of configuration and maintenance in the same way that servers and storage are being virtualized. The difference is that SDN ...