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 ...

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.

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.

HP announced Thursday a line of data center switches that can use the OpenFlow network-virtualization protocol, aiming to simplify network management in modern data centers. HP currently has 16 ...

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 ...