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Researchers can adjust network infrastructure to boost bandwidth, optimize latency and save power using an experimental technology called OpenFlow. OpenFlow is in the proof-of-concept stage but ...

APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements ...

Belief in OpenFlow-based software-defined networking is coalescing rapidly, the latest evidence being the overflow crowds at last week’s Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., and new details ...

An Open Networking Foundation working group is developing tools for migrating a traditional network to an SDN-based OpenFlow model. The tools will surface later, but for now, they've produced ...

With the rising popularity of OpenFlow and the Open Networking Foundation, there was a lot of anticipation for Cisco’s SDN announcement this week at Cisco live. We know Cisco gets disruptive ...

Test and measurement (T&M) vendor Spirent Communications announced that the OFELIA (OpenFlow in Europe: Linking Infrastructure and Applications) test bed is using Spirent TestCenter Virtual for ...