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 is critical of OpenFlow, claiming its decoupled control and data planes, linked by the OpenFlow protocol, forces customers to re-architect and re-engineer their networks. Gandhi was vocally ...

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 ...

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.

In 2011, Cisco officials said the company will offer OpenFlow support on its Nexus switches, and the networking giant is “spinning in” a new company—Insieme—that will be started by Cisco ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

HP has updated the software on 16 of its switches to support OpenFlow, a software-defined networking technology that could improve networking operations and resiliency in enterprise networks ...

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 ...