HP has released updates to let 16 of its switches support OpenFlow software-defined networking technology, which could eventually allow businesses to reconfigure their networks more easily and ...

Big Switch Networks just launched a tool to allow OpenStack developers to more easily use open software defined networking tools to deployment of agile networking. The company's Floodlight, an ...

Switches and routers are still needed, but without the intelligence in them, they may cost less. Both Cisco and Juniper are supporting OpenFlow.

HP is upping its support for the OpenFlow protocol by making OpenFlow-enabled switches commercially available.

Nicira CTO Martin Casado, who created the popular OpenFlow protocol, says virtual switches are a better tool for network automation and programmability.

But Jason Matloff, vice president of marketing at Big Switch, said Gandhi was just spouting the company line at Cisco while silently acknowledging OpenFlow’s reality.

New Brocade Openflow switches feed the vendor's push to apply data center ideas to the campus network — OpenFlow and SDN among them.

An SDN research paper points toward what could become OpenFlow 2.0, a protocol that's given more leeway for changing the underlying switches.

Palo Alto, Ca. – Big Switch Networks –formed to speed implementation of the new OpenFlow software-defined networking architecture in nextgen cloud architecture servers, routers, and switches–has just ...

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 ...

Chip maker Broadcom has announced a new specification along with software and APIs to improve the performance of OpenFlow switches and to make it easier for hardware vendors to build products ...

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 ...