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 ...

HP has released updates to let 16 of its switches support OpenFlow software-defined networking technology, which could eventually allow businesses to reconfigure their networks more easily and provide ...

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 ...

Context is everything. In our next column, we’ll resume the discussion of the details behind the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. Here, with the recent Open Networking Summit, and ...

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CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ixia (NAS: XXIA) now enables service providers to fully benefit from the reliability and scale of standards-based software-defined networking technologies, ...

OpenFlow proponents say the API and protocol, and SDNs in general, will open up networks to more innovation by providing a level of abstraction, or virtualization, between network control and the ...

What is OpenFlow? OpenFlow is a programmable network protocol designed to manage and direct traffic among routers and switches from various vendors. It separates the programming of routers and ...

SAN JOSE — The move to software-defined networks passedanother milestone as ADVA Optical Networking (Munich) demonstrated the OpenFlowspecification for the first time on an optically switched network.

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 ...

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 ...