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.

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.

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 ...