OpenFlow began at a consortium of universities, led by Stanford and Berkeley, as a way for researchers to use enterprise-grade Ethernet switches as customizable building blocks for academic networking ...

What is OpenFlow? OpenFlow is a programmable network protocol designed to manage and direct traffic among routers and switches from various vendors.

By specifying a standard interface (the OpenFlow Protocol) through which entries in the Flow Table can be defined externally." ...

OpenFlow allowed those researchers to test brand-new protocol designs and ideas safely on slices of production networks and traffic.

An SDN research paper points toward what could become OpenFlow 2.0, a protocol that's given more leeway for changing the underlying switches.

OpenFlow is in the proof-of-concept stage but someday could be used in business networks to engineer traffic, says Nick McKeown, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer ...

As most participants at the inaugural Open Networking Summit extolled the virtues of software-defined networking (SDN) and the OpenFlow protocol, others are waiting for key features to emerge ...

OpenFlow - What Every Switch Product Manager Should Know - what does network virtualization, software-defined networking &SDN mean to you.

But whilst a lot of the early work on SDN focused on OpenFlow as the southbound protocol, we are now seeing a variety of alternatives with many more under development, each with a differentiated use.