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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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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 NFV ONS 2013 Tutorial Download: SDN Market Opportunities Network Virtualization – Real World Views

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: May. 03, 2013

On April 15-18th, some of the most anticipated SDN and Network Functions Virtualization presentations were taking place at 2013′s Open Networking Summit. We were thrilled to have been able to participate in several very cool events, including the following tutorial presentation: “SDN Market Opportunites Network Virtualizaton – Real World Views.” Both Roy and I enjoyed the idea exchange with so…

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ONS 2013 Round-Up: Wrapping Up the Open Networking Summit

By: Roy Chua Posted: Apr. 25, 2013

With a sold-out attendance of almost 1,500 attendees, this year’s Open Networking Summit reflects SDN’s continued uptake in the networking industry. While Matt and I kept busy helping out with tutorials, SDN Idol, getting briefed by many SDN companies and chatting with enterprises and service providers, Curt Collins did a wonderful job of covering the two days of conference sessions—worth…

SDNCentral Exclusive: SDN Market Expected to Reach $35B by 2018

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: Apr. 24, 2013

SDNCentral collaborates with Plexxi & Lightspeed Ventures to size SDN Market. Roy and I are frequently asked — What is the Size of the SDN Market? and What does it mean to my business? — so much so, that as of April 2013, 6 of the top 10 networking and virtualization vendors have trusted us to create custom SDN market forecasts…

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ONS 2013 Day 2 Highlights Part 2 – On The Ground Reporting from Open Networking Summit

By: Curt Collins Posted: Apr. 19, 2013

[Editor's note: Curt is an extended member of the Wiretap/SDNCentral family and graciously agreed to help us cover ONS while Matt and Roy were fulfilling multiple duties at ONS 2013 on Wednesday. If you haven’t read the highlights from Tuesday yet, check it out first, along with Wednesday Part 1. ] Plenary Session: SDN for Service Providers, Part 2 “SDN@Google: …

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ONS 2013 Day 2 Highlights Part 1– On The Ground Reporting from Open Networking Summit

By: Curt Collins Posted: Apr. 18, 2013

[Editor's note: Curt is an extended member of the Wiretap/SDNCentral family and graciously agreed to help us cover ONS while Matt and Roy were fulfilling multiple duties at ONS 2013 on Wednesday. If you haven’t read the post from Tuesday yet, check out the highlights from Tuesday first. ] Keynotes “Virtual Application Network Innovations: Advanced SDN leadership” by Bethany Mayer (SVP and…

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ONS 2013 Day 1 – Research Track Summary

By: Curt Collins Posted: Apr. 18, 2013

[Editor's note: Curt is an extended member of the Wiretap/SDNCentral family and graciously agreed to help us cover ONS while Matt and Roy were fulfilling multiple duties at ONS 2013 on Tuesday.] There were several research track presentations given today. Here are some thoughts on five of the most interesting ones: “Toward Transitional SDN Deployment in Enterprise Networks” by Marco…

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ONS 2013 Day 1 Highlights – On The Ground Reporting from Open Networking Summit

By: Curt Collins Posted: Apr. 17, 2013

[Editor's note: Curt is an extended member of the Wiretap/SDNCentral family and graciously agreed to help us cover ONS while Matt and Roy were fulfilling multiple duties at ONS 2013 on Tuesday.] Overall the show was well attended. Many of the sessions were full or nearly so, which bodes well for the still emerging world of SDNs. I talked to…

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Top 5 Highlights from Open Networking Summit – ONS 2013 Tutorial Day

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: Apr. 16, 2013

Top 5 Highlights from Open Networking Summit, ONS 2013 - Tutorial Day The SDNCentral team is in full force at the Open Networking Summit (ONS) at the Santa Clara Convention Center and been catching up with old friends, making new friends, meeting with the movers and shakers of networking, and handing out free SDNCentral t-shirts (Visit our table next to the registration…

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