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

Network management and switching specification OpenFlow is being buoyed by industry support, according to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting ...

Although the functionality of SDN has evolved and matured, the scalability of SDNs based on OpenFlow has been limited by OpenFlow’s ties to ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM).

SDN pioneers Jennifer Rexford and Nick McKeown have formally launched the P4 SDN language, a data plane effort that expands on OpenFlow.

Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation Tremendous progress is being made in SDN and OpenFlow, with more and more products appearing, especially hardware-based OpenFlow switching ...

WedgeOS's support for SDN/OpenFlow provides an alternative pathway for cloud service providers and enterprise data centers to insert valuable security services into the data stream. As a provider of ...

There has been a lot of hype concerning software defined networks (SDN) and OpenFlow. What does SDN mean for you, and how should enterprises prepare for the coming changes in network architectures?

SDN (and OpenFlow) technology is clearly impacting the data center network, including data centers in large carriers (e.g., AT&T, SingTel, Telefonica, etc.). In the enterprise, SDN is defined as ...

Now that the software-defined networking (SDN) trend is catching on, it's time to assess the various vendors staking claims to the market. Turns out, it's a pretty big swath of the networking ...

Ixia will collaborate with InCNTRE through its SDN Testing Consortium to develop and test standards-based SDN technologies, including OpenFlow. InCNTRE is the world's only neutral testing lab for SDN ...