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, which ...

Startup Corsa is developing OpenFlow 1.3 switches as an alternative to traditional switches, calling the result a programmable data plane. The company is announcing its presence on Monday ahead of ...

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, ...

The promise of bringing software-defined networking (SDN) to optical networks was a big topic at OFC this week, but you didn't have to dive down far to see how difficult that task is going to be.

CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fulcrum Microsystems today announced that its Monaco reference design has been chosen as the 10G Ethernet switch fabric for the InteropNet OpenFlow Lab ...

Interop 2011 could have been called The OpenFlow Show. Vendors were hawking OpenFlow switches and controllers, and a lab demonstration on the show floor displayed the traffic management technique and ...

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 ...