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 ...

Google, an early backer of software-defined networking and OpenFlow, shared some details at the recent Open Networking Summit about how the company is using the technology to link 12 worldwide data ...

Belief in OpenFlow-based software-defined networking is coalescing rapidly, the latest evidence being the overflow crowds at last week’s Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., and new details ...

Shehzad Merchant, vice president of technology for Extreme Networks, will also present in a panel discussion on April 17 on standardization and adoption of software-defined networks (SDN). “Looking at ...

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 ...

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 ...

For three days this October, a group of computer networking industry heavyweights and academic researchers will assemble at the Li Ka Shing Center at Stanford University for the Open Networking Summit ...

Talkin' Bout An SDN Revolution? One of the biggest questions so far, it seems, is where the channel fits into the chatter and hype surrounding so-called software-defined networking (SDN). Between ...

The value proposition is twofold; (1) hardware resources are virtualized and treated as a utility, and (2) application requirements drive the utilization of these resources. So, rather than manually ...

With much fanfare, we witnessed the recent creation of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), which is a consortium that has been created to promote the adoption of the open source OpenFlow network ...

An approach to designing and operating large-scale networks that is based on programming the forwarding decisions in routers and switches via software from a central server. Software-defined ...