Chip maker Broadcom has announced a new specification along with software and APIs to improve the performance of OpenFlow switches and to make it easier for hardware vendors to build products.

This may be hard to believe, but OpenFlow is now about four years old, and late last year version 1.4 of OpenFlow was unveiled. This week, startup Pica8 became the first vendor to support 1.4 ...

Also, MPLS is a Layer 3 technique while OpenFlow is a Layer 2 method, which has particular applicability to data centers. Many feel MPLS is overly complex as well and, while standard, could be ...

OpenFlow defines a set of messages that are exchanged by the controller and switch. “OpenFlow's distinction is in a new implementation that provides discrete software options for network ...

Let’s recap quickly: OpenFlow, managed by the Open Networking Foundation, is an open-source communications interface between the control and forwarding layers within an SDN architecture.

At Interop this week, Cisco is unveiling an alternative to OpenFlow for software-defined networking and proposing it as a standard, while adding it as a vital component of the company’s new ...