An "OpenFlow Switch," according to the white paper, "consists of at least three parts: (1) A Flow Table, with an action associated with each flow entry, to tell the switch how to process the flow ...

OpenFlow - What Every Switch Product Manager Should Know - what does network virtualization, software-defined networking &SDN mean to you.

An OpenFlow-based virtual switch offers advantages to both Microsoft and Hyper-V users compared to Cisco’s approach, says an NEC spokesperson. “Cisco presented Nexus 1000v which is a ...

Broadcomhopes that OF-DPA will foster OpenFlow adoption among vendors and “facilitate general availability of production-quality” products based on the protocol. .

Switch Light is intended to offer users an alternative to proprietary, vendor-unique networking architectures, and accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow, the popular SDN API and protocol.

One of the releases is the OpenFlow-enabled RackSwitch G8264, an update of a 64-port, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch IBM put out a year ago.