Here’s a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi, senior director of the Server Access Virtualization Technology Group at Cisco – he of the “OpenFlow is a fantasy” rant at a March ...

During its SDN conference call this week with Morgan Stanley and other participants, Cisco officials talked often about how a “feedback loop” is vital in its vision of a programmable network. This ...

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At Interop this week, Cisco is unveiling an alternative to OpenFlow for software-defined networking and proposing it as a standard, while adding it as a vital component of the company’s new ...

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It’s not that the emerging OpenFlow standard as a foundation for software-defined networking (SDN) isn’t technically viable; it’s just that it’s beside the point. According to Prashant Gandhi, senior ...

The OpenFlow switching and communications protocol addresses packet routing on a software layer that's separate from a network's physical infrastructure. OpenFlow's major benefit is flexibility, ...

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In fact, Cisco could build OpenFlow software with IOS/Nexus intelligence and integration as sort of a dual path strategy. If I’ve learned anything about the network industry it is this: Never (and I ...

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 provide ...

Looking to broaden its market influence over the emerging OpenFlow networking protocol, HP on Thursday said it will make OpenFlow-enabled versions of 16 of its switch models available for commercial ...