Yesterday Cisco announced OpFlex, a new protocol designed to let policy managers send policy commands to network hardware. This sounds like an admirable move in the direction of SDN, except that Cisco touts this as a replacement for OpenFlow, and a development that negates the value of the centralized controller, both central tenets of the […]
About ONS 2014… AWESOME!
Man, woman, bot, (and any other entity reading this post) ONS 2014 was downright awesome! As a repeat exhibitor at the event I have to note that the growth in both quality and of number of commercially launched solutions was truly impressive. Of particular interest to NoviFlow were the OpenFlow 1.3 controllers and applications, which […]
Top 5 Predictions for the SDN Industry in 2014
The great Wayne Gretzky once put his strategy for success in ice hockey as follows: “I figure out where the puck is going to be next, and I get there first.” The New Year always provides a welcome excuse to stop the mad rush that is life in the world of high-tech, and to put […]
The basics of SDN and the OpenFlow Network Architecture
In recent years there has been a tremendous increase in carrier network traffic. To a great extent this has been fueled by explosive growth in the use of online applications and cloud services by an ever-expanding array of wired and mobile connected devices. Network operators today need to cope with a vast array of data formats, […]
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