I’ll review OpenFlow’s origins and the variety of problems it is solving, cover its current common architecture, and then look forward to why OpenFlow is such a disruptive technology that will ...

Architecture in practice Most current OpenFlow solutions incorporate a three-layer architecture, where the first layer is comprised of the all-important OpenFlow-enabled Ethernet switches.

Most current OpenFlow solutions incorporate a three-layer architecture, where the first layer is comprised of the all-important OpenFlow-enabled . Typically, these are physical Ethernet switches that ...

The beauty of using OpenFlow in these instances: It does not disrupt what is already working with the spine-and-leaf architecture.

QFabric mimics an OpenFlow architecture but does so in a proprietary way. Juniper is also a member of ONF but given the investment in QFabric, I can’t imagine that it will take an active role.

The Open SDN movement behind OpenFlow is often considered to be analogous to the server industries movement from proprietary vertically integrated mainframe model to the open x86 architecture.

The pipelines are a basic part of the OpenFlow architecture and are made up of linked tables that provide forwarding and packet modifications.

Pica8 Debuts Industry First OpenFlow Architecture - SiliconANGLE“The Pica8 solution is complementary to both Big Switch Networks and Nicira solutions. While the underlying chipset for ODM ...

OpenFlow is designed to provide consistency in traffic management and engineering by making this control function independent of the hardware it’s intended to control.

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.