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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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. .