OpenFlow start-up Big Switch Networks is submitting its controller software to the open-source community in order to catalyze an ecosystem of application developers, according to GigaOm. The Big ...

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 and ...

For this week’s interview, we turn to one of the top cybersecurity experts in the US, Phil Porras at SRI International. Readers familiar with the story about Conficker as covered in the book “Worm” by ...

SAN JOSE — The move to software-defined networks passedanother milestone as ADVA Optical Networking (Munich) demonstrated the OpenFlowspecification for the first time on an optically switched network.

IBM gave SDxCentral a preview into their SDN strategies earlier this week, including announcing the release of the IBM Programable Network Controller (or IBM SDN Controller) in Q4 2012. For those who ...

In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for servers and commodity ...

What's Next For SDN? Software-defined networking (SDN) was the major network industry trend of 2012, and in 2013, it's expected to be even more prevalent as SDN technologies move into proof-of-concept ...