Over the past couple of years, software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a strong alternative to traditional networking approaches in the areas of WAN, data center networks, and network overlay ...

OpenFlow 1.3 introduced the concept of multi-tables and methods to access and populate other tables including VLAN, MAC, IP, and MPLS. This brought in the ability to push flows to the appropriate ...

OpenFlow 2.0 doesn't formally exist yet, but one possible shape of the protocol — a more flexible take on packet switching — is starting to form. A research paper outlines the idea and sums it up ...

OpenFlow is a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) protocol used for southbound communications from an SDN controller to and from a network device. OpenFlow is the protocol used to inform the topology of ...

Northbound Networks has created the world’s smallest OpenFlow SDN switch which has been designed to be powerful enough to develop “world changing SDN applications”, but smaller to sit on your desktop.

If you have been following the rise of software-defined networking (SDN) recently as it makes its way into the thinking of enterprises the world over, it is likely you will have come across OpenFlow.