So what is OpenFlow? In 1984, a team of engineers from Phoenix Technologies worked to replicate the BIOS of the IBM Personal Computer. The result was the PC clone, which commoditized and opened ...

Impact of TCAMs on SDN and OpenFlow performance is critical and we introduce critical TCAM concepts that every SDN practitioner must know.

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

Some say OpenFlow and software-defined networking are more useful to huge data center-driven companies and network operators than to the enterprise As most participants at the inaugural Open ...

SDN has great potential, but OpenFlow was initially limited by its dependence on expensive memory devices. New ASICs have changed all that ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Google, an early backer of software-defined networking and OpenFlow, shared some details at the recent Open Networking Summit about how the company is using the technology to ...

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

OpenFlow and SDNs are just making it out of research labs and into production. OpenFlow is immature and unproven in large-scale network deployments, participants at the summit said.

An OpenFlow-like approach to networking was not really possible until recently, not just because the idea is novel, but because network hardware was not capable enough to handle traffic in this way.

The Router Analysis State of OpenFlow 2012 report is slated to come out in early January 2013. The report will be based on OpenFlow 1.0 and the functionality of current hardware.