Here’s a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi, senior director of the Server Access Virtualization Technology Group at Cisco – he of the “OpenFlow is a fantasy” rant at a March ...

During its SDN conference call this week with Morgan Stanley and other participants, Cisco officials talked often about how a “feedback loop” is vital in its vision of a programmable network. This ...

It’s not that the emerging OpenFlow standard as a foundation for software-defined networking (SDN) isn’t technically viable; it’s just that it’s beside the point. According to Prashant Gandhi, senior ...

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At Interop this week, Cisco is unveiling an alternative to OpenFlow for software-defined networking and proposing it as a standard, while adding it as a vital component of the company’s new ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

{Guest Post: This is a guest post written by Steven Noble of Router Analysis (routeranalysis.com). Steven is the main author and contributor to both the Router Analysis and SDN Testing Websites I work ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Many companies are working together around OpenFlow to standardize SDN but not all these companies are ...

The OpenFlow switching and communications protocol addresses packet routing on a software layer that's separate from a network's physical infrastructure. OpenFlow's major benefit is flexibility, ...

With much fanfare, we witnessed the recent creation of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), which is a consortium that has been created to promote the adoption of the open source OpenFlow network ...

I haven’t had the chance to ask Cisco about OpenFlow but I’m most interested to the answer to this question. From what I’ve read, Cisco joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) that owns OpenFlow ...

In fact, Cisco could build OpenFlow software with IOS/Nexus intelligence and integration as sort of a dual path strategy. If I’ve learned anything about the network industry it is this: Never (and I ...