Category Software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization open source projects

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DemoFriday Brocade SDN OpenFlow

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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TelecomCouncil Silicon Valley SDN NFV SDNCentral

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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Kelly Brocade SDN NFV OpenDaylight

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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SDNCentral SDNJourney Jim Metzler SDN NFV

Featured: SDN Journey #3 With Jim Metzler. OpenFlow, The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) And Other Standards Groups

By: Jim Metzler Posted: May. 08, 2013

Editor’s Note: The SDN Journey is a series of video tutorials and blog posts by networking industry luminary Jim Metzler designed to help end-users with SDN adoption. We will be posting new content every couple of weeks, both as blog posts and video tutorials–check the SDN Journey Channel page regularly to see the latest updates. This is the third in…

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SDN NFV Roy Chua

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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Cisco Nexus Quantum Plugin for OpenStack Grizzly

Featured Post: OpenStack Networking–Operational Simplicity With Cisco Nexus Plugin

By: Rohit Agarwalla Posted: Apr. 12, 2013

Last week’s OpenStack Grizzly release has a lot of people excited about the new features that are now available.  The open source cloud stack that is backed by a burgeoning community has now over 200 new features across all the projects including compute, storage and networking. All of the new networking innovations are found in OpenStack Networking. It has been…

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OpenDaylight: Opportunity or Threat? It's in the eye of the beholder

OpenDaylight: Opportunity or Threat? It’s in the eye of the beholder

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: Apr. 09, 2013

OpenDaylight was officially launched on Monday and clearly dominated the networking and even the  broader business-tech press today.  Like others — we had our own coverage with Roy’s post this morning and quickly added an OpenDaylight Project  page to the SDNCentral Directory. Reaction to the OpenDaylight announcement across the SDNCentral community was mixed with many more questions than answers, including: What is…

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6WIND ONS NFV vSWITCH SDN

Featured Post: 6WIND Accelerates OVS for High Performance Datacenters

By: Matthew Palmer Posted: Apr. 09, 2013

As we’ve stated before on SDNCentral — the vSwitch is the new Battleground.  In our customer engagements, vSwitches, how they operate in specific environments like OpenStack and VMware, and which vSwitch to choose is a long discussion. Increasingly, the topic is turning to which vSwitch or which variant of  OpenvSwitch (OVS) they should use and how to ensure that the…

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