Big Switch Networks just launched a tool to allow OpenStack developers to more easily use open software defined networking tools to deployment of agile networking. The company's Floodlight, an open ...

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 ...

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 ...

This network traffic-handling technology could have a major impact on the way the cloud is deployed and operated. Everything that’s "news" isn't relevant, as we all know, and when you have something ...

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 ...

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 ...

APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements ...

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 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.

OpenFlow 1.3 introduced the concept of multi-tables and methods to access and populate other tables including VLAN, MAC, IP, and MPLS. This brought in the ability to push flows to the appropriate ...