OpenFlow is in the proof-of-concept stage but someday could be used in business networks to engineer traffic, says Nick McKeown, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science ...

If you have been following the rise of software-defined networking (SDN) recently as it makes its way into the thinking of enterprises the world over, it is likely you will have come across OpenFlow.

This network traffic-handling technology could have a major impact on the way the cloud is deployed and operated. Everything that’s "news" isn't relevant, as we all know, and when you have something ...

OpenFlow 1.3 introduced the concept of multi-tables and methods to access and populate other tables including VLAN, MAC, IP, and MPLS. This brought in the ability to push flows to the appropriate ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Trying to negotiate SDN-enabled hardware today is not an easy thing to do. This is primarily due to ...

OpenFlow may be one of the hotter buzzwords in bleeding-edge networking technologies these days, but getting past the emotional exuberance and down to brass tacks in this area can be difficult. Why?

Since OpenFlow is not supported, you will have to make sure that your vendors will collaborate around integration and interoperability testing. Finally there are use cases where the OpenFlow criteria ...