OpenDaylight is building on our work, SDN group's director says
The OpenDaylight Project may have won attention last week with a founding list of vendors including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, but it's standing on the shoulders of others, according to the...
View ArticleOpen Networking Foundation director details SDN directions, OpenDaylight impact
The third annual Open Networking Summit, an SDN conference organized by the Open Networking Foundation, convened this week just after ONF members Cisco and IBM unveiled a separate effort to define an...
View ArticleIBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters
IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster.
View ArticleClarifying the role of software-defined networking northbound APIs
With software-defined networking the control of the network is pried out of the data handling devices and centralized on a controller that uses a common protocol, OpenFlow, to direct the switches on...
View ArticleThe promise of software defined networking
If you aren't intimately familiar with software defined networking, don't fret. Only 10 per cent of 450 IT practitioners at a recent Network World event raised their hands when asked if they understand...
View ArticleSDN FAQ
Software has been programming our networks for a long time, so how is SDN different?
View ArticleSDN: The core building blocks
When getting to know software defined networking, you'll encounter a number of terms that are used in conjunction with the technology. Some of the terms are unique to SDN, while others describe...
View ArticleWhat to look for in an SDN controller
One of the key challenges confronting potential users of software-defined networking is discerning the specific value of particular SDN controllers. Controllers, after all, play critical role as the...
View ArticlePlanning for SDN
Software-defined networking (SDN) is the hottest thing going today, but there is considerable confusion surrounding everything from the definition of the term to the different architectures and...
View ArticleWhere we stand with SDN
One gauge of industry progress on the software-defined networking front is the momentum of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the user-lead group that is spelling out the core SDN standards and...
View ArticleOpen Networking: The whale that swallowed SDN
The year is 2011, the Open Networking Foundation has just been formed by the largest Cloud and telecom service providers, software giants and academia – all of whom united at the inaugural Open...
View ArticleSDN: The next steps
Software Defined Networking technology is maturing and there are several real world use cases, but for most shops it is still a question of figuring out how we get there from here. In this Network...
View ArticleOpenFlow Supports IPv6 Flows
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...
View ArticleSDN and Network Virtualization: A Reality Check
The Software Defined Networking movement is still evolving, but profiles of SDN users are becoming more clear and we're getting a bead on some of the common evaluation criteria companies are using to...
View ArticleOpenDaylight Executive Director spells out where this open source SDN efforts...
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is the public face of the Software Defined Networking movement, spelling out requirements and defining standards. The group's board includes Google, Facebook,...
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