Exploring the concept called the "OpenFlow Microcontroller" where an OpenFlow controller runs in its own VM, isolated from embedded software.

Palo Alto, Ca. – Big Switch Networks –formed to speed implementation of the new OpenFlow software-defined networking architecture in nextgen cloud architecture servers, routers, and switches–has just ...

OpenFlow allows a flow controller to be server-based rather than on a switch. As a result, network managers can treat OpenFlow-enabled switches from different vendors as one switch for a more ...

OpenFlow is like an x86 instruction set for the network, upon which layers of software can be built. ANALYSIS: In an OpenFlow network, the various control plane functions of an L2 switch — , MAC ...

In an OpenFlow network, the various control plane functions of an L2 switch — Spanning Tree Protocol, MAC address learning, etc. — are determined by server software rather than switch firmware ...

The trouble with TCAMs However, as the benefits of OpenFlow expanded in scope and capabilities (including control plane disaggregation and open networking), the scaling of OpenFlow tables became a ...

OpenFlow controllers are central components of SDN as they capture control information from OpenFlow-enabled switches to centrally manage networks.

A commercial version of Floodlight, the vendor's OpenFlow controller, will follow later this year, Big Switch says.

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 ...

OpenFlow 1.4 also lets the controller know the power being transmitted and received at an optical port, a concern that just doesn't exist in Ethernet.