Cisco’s OpFlex protocol is intended to maintain control intelligence in the network infrastructure itself instead of centralizing it in a separate controller, which is the essence of the OpenFlow ...

Tier-1 carrier perspectives provided an early highlight of the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, held this week in Bad Homburg, Germany. The general message was that the capabilities of software-defined ...

Brocade this week announced broad support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP product line to extend SDNs beyond research and academia and into commercial and enterprise networks. Brocade’s new 2x100G ...

Last year, the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress was about protocols; this year it was about implementation, as you can see from our headlines at the show: More than 700 attendees convened in Bad Homburg, ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

FARMINGTON, Conn., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Tech executives and system administrators can't stop buzzing about software defined networking (SDN). Having redefined the archaic methods of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Software defined networking (SDN) has evolved from the slick new technology only a network geek could love to a key pillar in new strategies designed to simplify and automate network configuration and ...