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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

OpenFlow can still be classified as more science project than real-world implementation but it has the potential to really change how networks are built, managed, and sold.

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

Interop 2011 could have been called The OpenFlow Show. Vendors were hawking OpenFlow switches and controllers, and a lab demonstration on the show floor displayed the traffic management technique ...

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.

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 ...