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 Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization that promotes Software-Defined Networking (SDN), has announced approval of OpenFlow 1.3.0, which adds a number of updates to the ...

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.

SDN诞生于美国GENI项目资助的斯坦福大学Clean Slate课题，斯坦福大学Nick McKeown教授为首的研究团队提出了Openflow的概念用于校园网络的试验创新，后续基于Openflow给网络带来可编程的特性，SDN的概念应运而生。 2006年，SDN诞生于美国GENI项目资助的斯坦福大学Clean Slate ...

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 ...

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 open ...

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, ...

The rationale for opening up more layers than just the control and forwarding planes in network programmability is to glean as much statistical and analytical information as possible from the router ...

Can you program a network of multivendor switches and routers, all running different operating systems, command line interfaces and configuration routines, to work in concert when it comes to managing ...