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Cisco pushing own open SDN protocol, alternative to OpenFlow

Cisco unveiled its own open protocol for software defined networking (SDN) that is alternative to OpenFlow, an already popular standard among SDN vendors. The networking giant has convinced a number ... read more

TCAMs and OpenFlow - What Every SDN Practitioner Must Know

Figure 5. There will be new combinations of hardware and software for SDN lookups coming. Nick McKeown put it quite eloquently in a meeting in February of 2010 in the weekly OpenFlow meeting notes. read more

SDN and IPv6 Creates Buzz for Network Traffic Routing Protocols

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 ... read more

VMware’s Nicira Emphasizing Virtual Switches Over OpenFlow for SDN

Nicira CTO Martin Casado, who created the popular OpenFlow protocol, says virtual switches are a better tool for network automation and programmability. read more

Optical OpenFlow Won't Be So Easy - SDxCentral

OpenFlow 1.4 starts opening the protocol to the optical network, but the photonic layer is trickier than at the packet layer. OFC highlighted some of the challenges. Meanwhile, the ... read more

OpenFlow to face a multi-protocol market for the SDN southbound link

The development of both SDN and NFV promises to re-engineer the telecoms network for improved agility and service efficiency, and we are already seeing telcos ... OpenFlow to face a multi-protocol ... read more

OpenFlow not the only path to network revolution - InfoWorld

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 ... read more

OpenFlow not the only path to network revolution - InfoWorld

Will OpenFlow get us all on the same path to SDN nirvana? ... APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. read more