AF: With OpenFlow, you introduce programmability to something that didn’t really have customizability and flexibility. I can see web services companies being first adopters — companies that use a lot ...

APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements ...

OpenFlow 2.0 doesn't formally exist yet, but one possible shape of the protocol — a more flexible take on packet switching — is starting to form. A research paper outlines the idea and sums it up ...