Posts Tagged "OpenFlow"
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
Last July, Nicira’s acquisition by VMware shook (should I say shocked?) the networking industry. It was like a nostalgic retro move back to the good old Internet times. At least now everybody has heard about SDN and OpenFlow, although it’s unlikely that many people except a few visionaries can explain in a few words what SDN and OpenFlow really bring. Network virtualization, simplified network architecture, networking CAPEX and OPEX reduction, Network-as-a Read More »
By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
With the widespread industry discussions about Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the OpenFlow protocol, this is an appropriate time to review some of the key SDN performance challenges and how 6WIND’s software addresses them.
Architectural concepts
OpenFlow improves network management by centralizing network control functions and is currently designed to work with Layer 2 and Layer 3 packet forwarding engines.
The 6WINDGate packet Read More »
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
In a recent post, Charlie summarized his discussions at the Open Networking Summit. The conference covered a wide range of business and technical subjects relating to Software Defined Networks (SDN), with the topic of OpenFlow receiving particular attention in the networking industry.
Last month I visited Japan and made a presentation about 6WIND’s technology to a group of Japanese journalists. Japan is one of the countries with the highest penetration of Read More »
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND
I spent a couple of days last week at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara. The conference covered a wide range of business and technical subjects relating to Software Defined Networks, with the topic of OpenFlow receiving particular attention.
In a keynote address on the first day of the conference, Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President at Google, described how Google used OpenFlow as part of a major overhaul of its internal networking infrastructure Read More »
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
OpenFlow has recently gained significant momentum in the network community. OpenFlow was initially a research initiative to ease the integration and test of new network features. It is now supported by major industry players within the Open Network Foundation (ONF): http://www.opennetworkingfoundation.org/.
The main objective of OpenFlow is to make network architectures simpler and easier to reconfigure in line with customer needs (to complement the virtualization Read More »
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