P4 would take all that information and tell it to the control plane, which would use OpenFlow 2.0 to implement the rules in the switches. This would allow for the creation of table types that ...

OpenFlow uses its protocol to connect and configure network devices like routers and switches to determine the best path for application traffic. There are other SDN protocols that a controller ...

With TTP, customers can scale OpenFlow SDNs more broadly, Pica8 says, and deploy it across a range of data center applications like hybrid cloud, disaster recovery, and network monitoring.

This follows Microsoft’s coup, also earlier this month, with Cisco in which Cisco said it was creating a Nexus 1000V Series virtual switch designed to support Windows Server 8’s Hyper-V 3.0 ...

OF-DPA defines and implements a hardware abstraction layer that maps Broadcom’s StrataXGS switch chipsets to OpenFlow 1.3.1 switches and pipelines.