Before diving into the technical details of OpenFlow switches, it is important to make sure that new staff have a solid understanding of the basics of networking, such as IP addressing, routing ...

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 ...

Broadcom's OF-DPA provides a switch-level abstraction layer between the Broadcom StraraXGS® switch architecture, mapping OpenFlow 1.3.1 messages to ASIC API calls.

This paper describes the design and implementation of an OpenFlow software defined network (SDN) agent that manages and configures 10-gigabit-capable symmetric passive optical network (XGS-PON) ...

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

“NEC is honored to be the first company to receive the OpenFlow Switch Specification 1.0.1 certificate for our Programmable Flow Switches PF5240 and PF5248,” said Akio Iijima, chief product ...

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.