At Interop this week, Cisco is unveiling an alternative to OpenFlow for software-defined networking and proposing it as a standard, while adding it as a vital component of the company’s new ...

OpenFlow in and of itself does not create value for Cisco, even though IDC says OpenFlow hardware, software and services will be a $2 billion market by 2016.

Cisco Unveils OpFlex as Alternative to OpenFlow Cohen and Shashi Kiran, senior director of marketing for Cisco Data Center Solutions, said definitions regarding SDN are becoming less important.

Cisco and Juniper both have on-going early field trials with specific customers and a lot of NDA paperwork needed to get access to the OpenFlow enabled code.

Extreme Networks is joining Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and other established networking vendors in embracing the OpenFlow protocol as a key part of their larger software-defined networking ...

Nothing against OpenFlow directly, says Gandhi, but it will take an OpenFlow vendor consortium years to match the capabilities that customers have access to in a Cisco SDN. In the meantime, via ...

From what I’ve read, Cisco joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) that owns OpenFlow and is saying publicly that it is cool with OpenFlow as long as vendor extensibility is part of the ...

Cisco unveiled its own open protocol for software defined networking (SDN) that is alternative to OpenFlow, an already popular standard among SDN vendors. The networking giant has convinced a number ...

6. Personally, I don’t see SDN and OpenFlow as a threat to Cisco. In fact, Cisco could build OpenFlow software with IOS/Nexus intelligence and integration as sort of a dual path strategy.

Cisco unveiled its own open protocol for software defined networking (SDN) that is alternative to OpenFlow, an already popular standard among SDN vendors. The networking giant has convinced a number ...