SDN runs on commodity x86 servers that sit on the network and communicate with OpenFlow-enabled switches. I stress that all OpenFlow products from all makers will talk to each other.

There has been a lot of hype concerning software defined networks (SDN) and OpenFlow. What does SDN mean for you, and how should enterprises prepare for the coming changes in network architectures?

Software-defined networking promises to deliver enormous benefits, from reduced costs to more efficient network operations. Here’s why SDN belongs on your network roadmap.

Having announced support for OpenFlow and SDN back on Brocade’s Tech Day 2010, Cheng states that SDN is now poised to fundamentally change networking in a profound way, we are leading the charge.

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 ...

There's more to SDN research than just OpenFlow or northbound APIs there's also good business research, like from Lucerne Univerity in Switzerland.

Eliot Rosen, Product Line Director at Broadcom, discussed some of the key trends in data centers and their implications for new processor architectures at Linley Tech Processor Conference.

Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is an SDN solution at odds with the OpenFlow approach, and as such, it diverges from the original direction of the OpenDaylight SDN project, of ...