I’ve heard arguments for letting a Northbound interface develop over time organically instead of mandating via committee. And every one is looking for coalescence around a NBAPI. Instead of trying to ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. The Southbound interface between the switch and the controller was key to significant SDN possibilities.

The future of networking will be defined by software. That was the overriding theme after the first day of the inaugural Open Networking Summit, a conference dedicated to software-defined networking ...

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.

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.

APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements ...

About how OpenFlow addresses the networking as an alternative to TRILL or SPB. KF: I think you can take two paths there. The first path is to say that the OpenFlow protocol itself is expressive enough ...

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.