* OpenFlow enables Ethernet network controllers to determine the path of network packets across a network of switches via software (SDN), not hardware. It is a standard supported by major switch ...

Abstract: The communication network context in actual systems like 5G, cloud and IoT (Internet of Things), presents an ever-increasing number of users, applications and services that are highly ...

Over the past couple of years, software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as a strong alternative to traditional networking approaches in the areas of WAN, data center networks, and network overlay ...

Abstract: Currently, there is a philosophical problem that arises between the real need for current support to OpenFlow and legacy network infrastructure. Among them, the legacy networking has not ...

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 ...

Are We Now In The Post-OpenFlow SDN Wave? It feels like that even OpenFlow could play a role in SDN (as also OpenDaylight seems to support it) when either more custom ASICs (likely) or more scalable ...

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