OpenFlow 2.0 doesn't formally exist yet, but one possible shape of the protocol — a more flexible take on packet switching — is starting to form. A research paper outlines the idea and sums it up ...

There’s been a lack of competition in the networking industry. Look at some of the primitives that exist in some of the OpenFlow systems and the trials and demos going on. It highlights that even the ...

Chip maker Broadcom has announced a new specification along with software and APIs to improve the performance of OpenFlow switches and to make it easier for hardware vendors to build products.

Big Switch Networks, the startup that was once the face of software-defined networking (SDN) to many, has had it rough lately. Overlay networks have become the rage, rather than the OpenFlow protocol ...

Over the past couple of years, software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a strong alternative to traditional networking approaches in the areas of WAN, data center networks, and network overlay ...