While OpenFlow started out by exploiting the TCAM capabilities, it was not optimized for some simple forwarding applications such as a typical routing or a Layer-2 pipeline. In order to achieve flow ...

Other IPv6 and OpenFlow Examples: There are starting to be more discussion of how to use OpenFlow for IPv6 traffic flows and more examples of IPv6 implemented into OpenFlow products. In 2012 at ...

OpenFlow, managed by the Open Networking Foundation, is an open-source communications interface between the control and forwarding layers within an SDN architecture. Its supporters include most ...

With OpenFlow 1.1, a switch can now use these same FIB tables for flows managed by an off-board controller, which alleviates the second concern about the number of flows a switch can support.

If OpenFlow defines one interface that exists between, say, a controller and the forwarding hardware, that could potentially be an interface that applications could directly communicate with.

Take for example, Floodlight’s RESTful northbound interface to handle queries and state reporting, and for static rule programming.

Brocade said its data center and local area network (LAN) switches now support OpenFlow, the popular open protocol for software defined networking (SDN). The San Jose, California-based networking ...

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