Why is OpenFlow needed? Vendors offer varying degrees of user programmability on their routers and switches. This can lead to limited functionality for traffic engineering and management, or ...

OpenFlow - What Every Switch Product Manager Should Know - what does network virtualization, software-defined networking &SDN mean to you.

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 ...

In an OpenFlow network, the various control plane functions of an L2 switch — Spanning Tree Protocol, MAC address learning, etc. — are determined by server software rather than switch firmware.

David Erickson of Stanford shares the history of the Beacon controller (on which Big Switch's Floodlight was based) and his thoughts on SDN and OpenFlow.

OpenFlow, managed by the Open Networking Foundation, ... OpenStack, Open vSwitch, and the Linux kernel. So there you not only have an impenetrable bowl of alphabet soup, ...

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 ...

HP has updated the software on 16 of its switches to support OpenFlow, a software-defined networking technology that could improve networking operations and resiliency in enterprise networks ...