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 ...

While OpenFlow started out by exploiting the TCAM capabilities, it was not optimized for some simple forwarding applications such as a typical routing or a Layer-2 pipeline. In order to achieve flow ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2014) - Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP portfolio of routing and switching products, extending the company's ...

The OpenFlow switching and communications protocol addresses packet routing on a software layer that's separate from a network's physical infrastructure. OpenFlow's major benefit is flexibility, ...

Interest and momentum around OpenFlow and software defined networking (SDN) has certainly been accelerating. I think people are so excited about SDNs because, while we have seen a lot of innovation ...

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 ...

A new horizon in how applications and network control can dynamically alter network performance and operations. The concept of Applications Optimized Networks (AON) has been around for many years.

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY--(Marketwired - October 14, 2014) - Metaswitch Networks today announced it is using Broadcom Corporation's (BRCM) open-source OpenFlow Data Plane Abstraction (OF-DPA) software as ...

I've heard a lot of talk lately about software-defined networks (SDN). Just about every networking vendor is at least nodding at the concept, particularly as a way of handling more complex cloud-based ...