APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements ...

Researchers can adjust network infrastructure to boost bandwidth, optimize latency and save power using an experimental technology called OpenFlow. OpenFlow is in the proof-of-concept stage but ...

Will Cisco position the upcoming Nexus 9000 as the foundation for its proprietary Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric? Or as a cost-effective 40G platform for OpenFlow software-defined ...

Interest and momentum around OpenFlow and software defined networking (SDN) has certainly been accelerating. I think people are so excited about SDNs because, while we have seen a lot of innovation ...

With the rising popularity of OpenFlow and the Open Networking Foundation, there was a lot of anticipation for Cisco’s SDN announcement this week at Cisco live. We know Cisco gets disruptive ...

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln (which you admittedly don’t often get to do in a technology blog), “God must have loved standards because he made so many of them.” That sentiment is nowhere more evident ...

KDDI Corporation and DriveNets have forged a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the adoption of open network architecture. The agreement aims to ensure the separation of hardware and software ...