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Five SDN protocols other than OpenFlow

control and forwarding layers of an SDN architecture, it may not remain the predominating protocol. With all of its promise, OpenFlow also poses a slew of challenges from scalability to security. Most ... read more

SDN is not OpenFlow, but OpenFlow is a real disruption

I’m sure that many people will declare me wrong, but the promise of SDN and the promise of OpenFlow ... There are many obstacles to deploying an OpenFlow-based networking infrastructure. One obstacle, ... read more

Brocade Advances SDN Leadership With OpenFlow 1.3 Support Across IP Routing and Switching Portfolio

While earlier versions of OpenFlow are widely deployed among Research and Education Networks (RENs) and other ... embrace SDN without affecting their current production traffic." An early supporter of ... read more

Cisco and Juniper Reveal SDN Strategies

Like Cisco, Juniper expects to support other protocols in addition to OpenFlow ... Cisco's SDN strategy is more advanced than Juniper's, which remains very much in the planning stage. But if SDN becom... read more

Intel Invests $6.5 Million in SDN Vendor Big Switch Networks

Intel is investing $6.5 million in Big Switch Networks ... in data center network virtualization." Big Switch Networks in November rolled out its Open SDN suite, a set of networking tools based on the ... read more

Extreme Networks Chooses OpenDaylight Controller for SDN Platform

Less than three weeks ... Inc. announced an SDN platform based on an OpenDaylight controller. Two years ago, Extreme Networks had featured OpenFlow support in its Ethernet switches for SDN. OpenFlow i... read more

Transport SDN Takes Shape

SDN’s roots lie in LANs and packets. The data center is the environment for which SDN and its protocols such as OpenFlow were initially ... to provision circuits in less than 1 minute and de-provision ... read more

SDN and Openflow: Is the protocol dead?

The average network engineer does not understand how to deploy the OpenFlow protocol: While network engineers are used to learning new protocols, before SDN and OpenFlow, most engineers were learning ... read more

NoviFlow Announces Inside-OpenFlow, The Resource Site for Rapid Adoption and Deployment of OpenFlow and SDN

and NoviFlow’s other advanced OpenFlow solutions and Open Source projects demonstrated live at the SDN World Congress, Booth #17, October 10 - 14, 2016. For more information about NoviFlow high-perfor... read more

Pica8 claims to be first vendor to support OpenFlow 1.4

Pica8 updated its bare-metal switch software to support OpenFlow 1.4, claiming to be the first company to support the newest version of the SDN protocol on its products ... And when it does get full, ... read more