OpenFlow start-up Big Switch Networks is submitting its controller software to the open-source community in order to catalyze an ecosystem of application developers, according to GigaOm. The Big ...

Belief in OpenFlow-based software-defined networking is coalescing rapidly, the latest evidence being the overflow crowds at last week’s Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., and new details ...

Chalk up another big partnership win for Microsoft’s Hyper-V from the world of virtual, programmable switching. NEC’s OpenFlow-based network fabric, ProgrammableFlow, will be integrated with Windows ...

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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.