Today the supported protocol used to instantiate a flow into vendor switches who support SDN is OpenFlow v1.0. Some manufacturers have begun supporting v1.1 and greater, ...

With OpenFlow/SDN, users can customize networks to local needs, eliminate unneeded features and create virtual, isolated networks, says Nick McKeown, professor of electrical engineering and ...

SDN solutions using OpenFlow tackle complex problems, including dynamic provisioning, interconnection, and fault management. Although the functionality of SDN has evolved and matured, ...

In the short term and especially if you are deploying SDN in a greenfield environment or as a new extension of your network (e.g. new data center), you may decide to let go the OpenFlow criteria.

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.

Nicira CTO Martin Casado, who created the popular OpenFlow protocol, says virtual switches are a better tool for network automation and programmability.

You can gauge the promise of an emerging technology by the reaction of the biggest legacy player potentially threatened by the new arrival. It walks a fine line between jumping in too quickly and ...

Aim of the OpenFlow-enabled SDN is to cultivate an ecosystem of developers to write apps for a programmable, nationwide service delivery network Ciena this week said it is partnering with a ...

Brocade ‘Solutioneer’ Peter Moyer has more than 15 years’ experience with IP and MPLS networking. He has Cisco CCIE#3286 and Juniper JNCIE #2 certifications and can speak geek – most of ...

SDN has great potential, but OpenFlow was initially limited by its dependence on expensive memory devices. New ASICs have changed all that. April 05, 2016 Comment. Pica8. Over the past couple of years ...