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Featured Interview: Radware CTO, Avi Chesla, Discusses SDN Strategy in Application Delivery And Securityby Roy Chua
5/17: Catch BROCADE's Demo of OpenFlow in Hybrid Port Mode During SDNCentral's DemoFriday™ by Patricia Dugan
Missed the Lunch? Catch the Video of Arista Networks SDN Essentials Seminarby Matthew Palmer
Featured Video By 6WIND: Accelerated vSwitch with Eric Carmès and Charlie Ashtonby Matthew Palmer

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Featured Interview: Radware CTO, Avi Chesla, Discusses SDN Strategy in Application Delivery And Security

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 16, 2013

Avi Chesla is Radware’s CTO. As Chief Technology Officer at Radware, Mr. Chesla is responsible for leading the company’s strategic technology roadmap and vision. This includes laying the theoretical basis for future products and solutions, research and design of core product algorithms, evaluating OEM opportunities and representing the company’s technology and future plans to the industry. SDNCentral: Can you provide…

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5/17: Catch BROCADE’s Demo of OpenFlow in Hybrid Port Mode During SDNCentral’s DemoFriday™

By: Patricia Dugan Posted: May. 16, 2013

RSVP for this most special event. Join Mitesh Shah, Technical Marketing Engineer and Michael Schiff, Product Marketing Manager of Brocade as they share SDN solutions with us–armed with a live demonstration and fully prepared to answer your questions. Tomorrow’s DemoFriday™ is all about OpenFlow products developed by Brocade to increase network simplicity, scalability, and virtualization in an enterprise environment. Experience a power hour with live demo…

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Missed the Lunch? Catch the Video of Arista Networks SDN Essentials Seminar

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: May. 15, 2013

A few weeks ago, the SDNCentral team joined Arista Networks and Apollo Information Systems for a practical, informative lunch seminar on SDN fundamentals. Here’s a video of the event so you can take a look at what you may have missed. We cover when to use SDN technologies, what problems they solve, and how to prepare your infrastructure today….

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Featured Video By 6WIND: Accelerated vSwitch with Eric Carmès and Charlie Ashton

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: May. 14, 2013

Editor’s Note: 6WIND Gate Accelerated vSwitch is a video tutorial by Eric Carmès and Charlie Ashton. As virtual switch and Open vSwitch (OVS) technology increasingly become the heart of SDN-based data center networks, the challenge for vSwitch vendors becomes finding ways to meet rapidly growing performance challenges. 6WIND is among those working to find ways to optimize OVS. They recently…

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Featured Interview: Deep-Dive into Juniper’s SDN Controller and Strategy with Ankur Singla, Former CEO of Contrail

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 14, 2013

Ankur Singla is Vice President of SDN and Orchestration Systems at Juniper Networks. He formerly was CEO and co-founder of Contrail Systems, an SDN startup acquired by Juniper in December of last year. SDNCentral: Congratulations again on your acquisition! How has the acquisition been from your point of view? What’s the overall progress of the Juniper/Contrail integration? Ankur: “Thank you!…

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Interop 2013 SDN Round-Up

By: Roy Chua Posted: May. 14, 2013

Interop last week saw a number of announcements from both major vendors and startups, many focused on SDN, or at least had SDN in their bylines. With all the news flying around, we decided to put together a short round-up on some key announcements that caught our attention: Arista showed off its recently-announced 7500E switch, with strong support for VXLAN…

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SDNCentral Presentation at TelecomCouncil: State of the SDN Market

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: May. 12, 2013

On May 7th, we were thrilled to participate in the Software Defined Networks (SDN) Networks Meeting put on by TelecomCouncil Silicon Valley. My presentation: ”State of the SDN Market” didn’t warrant any thrown tomatoes–so I’m posting it here to share with you. I discussed a bit about a) the state of SDN market; b) customer anecdotes; and c) what to look for in SDN…

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SDN And The Forgotten Data Plane – Is My Flow Equal To Your Flow?

By: Markus Nispel Posted: May. 11, 2013

It’s all about software, yes? All of this – as the name Software Defined Networks suggests – focused on the software components, APIs and application integration capabilities. However, I want to turn the focus more onto what is going on underneath: the Data Plane. While it is an architectural decision how and whether the control and data plane are being…

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OpenDaylight Project: The Speed Promise By Kelly Herrell

By: Kelly Herrell Posted: May. 10, 2013

Since the announcement of the OpenDaylight Project in April there’s been a lot of kerfuffle on the wires. Why is OpenDaylight a vendor-led initiative? Is it going to slow down SDN? Is it an insidious plot to squelch SDN startups? It’s time we all take a step back and view OpenDaylight for what it is: A good example of the…

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5/10 Live Demo With Winning Triad: Plexxi, SolidFire And Customer, CloudSigma

By: Patricia Dugan Posted: May. 09, 2013

Plexxi has proven itself to be formidably capable of delivering incredible LIVE SDN demonstrations through the DemoFriday™ forum on SDNCentral. In March they partnered with Boundary, sharing a live demo on how to combine application performance management with Plexxi’s programmable infrastructure to solve real datacenter SDN problems. This Friday, May 10, 2013, Plexxi does it again–and teams with storage player, SolidFire,…