This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. OpenFlow, the exciting new ...

Interop 2011 could have been called The OpenFlow Show. Vendors were hawking OpenFlow switches and controllers, and a lab demonstration on the show floor displayed the traffic management technique and ...

For this week’s interview, we turn to one of the top cybersecurity experts in the US, Phil Porras at SRI International. Readers familiar with the story about Conficker as covered in the book “Worm” by ...

In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for servers and commodity ...

SAN JOSE — The move to software-defined networks passedanother milestone as ADVA Optical Networking (Munich) demonstrated the OpenFlowspecification for the first time on an optically switched network.

Big Switch Networks has seen success with its Floodlight controller downloaded over 10,000 times, and we thought it would be important for the community to understand the origins of Floodlight, what ...