Spirent launches Spirent TestCenter OpenFlow, the industry’s first solution to offer protocol emulation along with the ability to benchmark flow scal ...

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

With a new industry organization to promote it, routing protocol OpenFlow is about to give users unprecedented ease of control over the way their networks operate.

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 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 ...

"Meru's SDN implementation is unique in using OpenFlow in our mobility controllers to enable third-party control all the way to the access point," said Ajay Malik, senior vice president of ...

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.

Big Switch Networks officials are preparing an open-source thin switching platform that will bring software-defined networking capabilities and the OpenFlow controller protocol to “white-box ...

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 ...

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 ...