Here’s SDNCentral’s Software Defined Networking Blogroll and news sites that are active around network virtualization and software-defined networking. If you know of any that we’ve missed, let us know by suggesting one!
Analyst
Individual analysts covering network virtualization, software-defined networking, SDN, and OpenFlow
- Bob Laliberte
ESG Research - Joe Skorupa Gartner
- Jon Oltsik
ESG Research - Linley Group Official Linley Group Blog
- Mark Leary The First Tracks
- The Lippis Report Nick Lippis
- Tom Nolle CIMI
Corporate
Corporate blogs covering network virtualization, software-defined networking, SDN, and OpenFlow
- 6Labs FishNet Security Corporate Blog
- Big Switch Networks
Official Big Switch Networks Blog - Black Diamond Tech Blog Black Diamond Technologies
- Brocade Open Script
Brocade Open Script Community - Brocade Service Provider
Brocade Service Provider Blog - Cisco Architect & DE Discussions Unfiltered & Out Loud: Inside the Brains Driving the Creation of New Software and Networking Technologies Across Cisco and the Industry
- CohesiveFT Blog
- ConteXtream
Official ConteXtream Blog - Dave Ward Cisco
- Embrane
Official Embrane Blog - Guido Appenzeller
Personal Blog for CEO of Big Switch - HP Networking Blog
Official HP Networking Blog - Jayshree Ullal
Arista Networks CEO - LineRate Blog Official Line Rate Blog
- Lori MacVittie – Two Different Socks F5 | DevCentral
- Martìn Casado
Network Heresy - Multicore Packet Processing Forum 6Wind Blog
- Omar Sultan
Cisco - OpenFlowHub by Big Switch
Big Switch - Ovum Ovum Blog
- Pica8 Deep Dive Pica8 Blog
- The Real Journey Begins Now PLUMgrid Corporate Blog
- Virtual Now – Dan Hersey's Blog Big Switch
- vNetwork Big Switch Networks
Media
Media blogs covering network virtualization, software-defined networking, SDN, and OpenFlow
- Art Wittman
Information Week - Arthur Cole IT Business Edge
- James Urquhart
CNET - Jeff Doyle
Information Week - Jim Duffy Network World
- John Markoff NY Times
- Light Reading Official Light Reading Blog
- Michael Fratto Network Computing Fratto covers enterprise IT, networking, data center, and IT industry issues. He likes standards.
- Network Computing News, blogs, and commentary on software defined networking
- Networks Generation ComputerWeekly.com
- Search Networking
Official Search Networking Blog - Telecom Ramblings News, Analysis, and Commentary for Telecom and Internet Infrastructure
- The Network Hub A SearchNetworking.com blog
- Thomas Claburn
Information Week - WIRED Enterprise Cade Metz
Non-Profit
Non-profit organizations with blogs covering network virtualization, software-defined networking, SDN, and OpenFlow
- Dan Pitt
Managing Director, Open Network Foundation (ONF) - Open Networking Foundation
Official Open Networking Foundation Blog - OpenFlow.org
Original OpenFlow Blog & Website – not at Open Network Foundation
ONF Presentations
Open Networking Foundation Network virtualization, Software-defined networking, SDN, and OpenFlow presentations
Personal
Individual's who blog about network virtualization, software-defined networking, SDN, and OpenFlow
- Art Wittman
Information Week - Brad Casemore
Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds - Brad Hedlund
Studies in Data Center Networking, Virtualization, Computing - Brad Reese
Bloggers speak out on BradReese.Com - Carrier Grade Communications Dr. Yaakov Stein Blog
- Chris Hoff
Rational Survivability - Chris Swan's Weblog Chris Swan’s Weblog–IT Mixology and other thoughts about tech, life, the universe and everything
- Cloud Toad Derick Winkworth
- Ethan Banks Ethan Banks of Packetpushers
- Greg Ferro
Ethereal Mind - Ivan Peplnjak
IP Space - Jason Edelman Jason Edelman, CCIE 15394. Senior Solutions Architect at Presidio
- Mark Leary The First Tracks
- Matt Davy
Chief Network Architect and Executive Director of InCNTRE - Michael Schipp Michael Schipp
- Network Static By Brent Salisbury
- Packet Pushers
Packet Pushers - Silicon Loons Silicon Loons
- vInfrastructure Blog Andrea Mauro
Research
Research organizations who blog about network virtualization, software-defined networking, SDN, and OpenFlow
SDN Standards
Proposed software-defined networking standards from IETF and Open Networking Foundation
- Edge multicast replication for BGP IP VPNs
- http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-l3vpn-end-system-00.pdf BGP-signaled end-system IP/VPNs
- OpenFlow 1.2 cover page – Open Networking Foundation
- OpenFlow Spec 1.3.0 – Open Networking Foundation
- OpenFlow Switch Specification, Version 1.0.0
- OpenFlow Switch Specification, Version 1.1.0
- The Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol Draft by IETF
- Traffic classification in end-system IP VPNs
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