OpenFlow switches are configurable via the OpenFlow API, and also have an MPLS extension for quality-of-service and service-level-agreement support. By extending these capabilities to ns-3 for a ...

The possibilities of SDN, in particular OpenFlow, are exciting. But to see the possible become reality will depend on how quickly a capable and usable Northbound API is developed.

OpenFlow, in particular, is becoming popular and starts being deployed. While the definition of the "northbound" API that can be used by the new services to interact with an OpenFlow controller is ...

I’ll review OpenFlow’s origins and the variety of problems it is solving, cover its current common architecture, and then look forward to why OpenFlow is such a disruptive technology that will ...

Also, MPLS is a Layer 3 technique while OpenFlow is a Layer 2 method, which has particular applicability to data centers. Many feel MPLS is overly complex as well and, while standard, could be ...

Clearly the iPhone API has been well-received by mobile application developers. Unlikely that we'd ever see millions of Apps for OpenFlow on the OpenFlow app-store, but I'd bet we'd be ecstatic if ...

We already have this in a central database! So let’s just program it!” With a general API like OpenFlow, SDN makes the introduction of new vendor operating systems much easier, Gashinsky says.

OpenFlow 1.3.0 was developed by the Extensibility Working Group of ONF, which is tasked with moving technical work forward and making OpenFlow more flexible. The new version includes support for: ...

At the Open Networking Foundation, which is focused exclusively on SDNs? Not so much. They’re focused on bulking up the southbound OpenFlow API and protocol, Ward said.

An OpenFlow-like approach to networking was not really possible until recently, not just because the idea is novel, but because network hardware was not capable enough to handle traffic in this way.