Big Switch Networks just launched a tool to allow OpenStack developers to more easily use open software defined networking tools to deployment of agile networking. The company's Floodlight, an open ...

Looking to broaden its market influence over the emerging OpenFlow networking protocol, HP on Thursday said it will make OpenFlow-enabled versions of 16 of its switch models available for commercial ...

Big Switch is releasing the source code for Floodlight, its controller software, via its web site. The hope is to spur app development around the controller while also anticipating the release of a ...

Here’s a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi, senior director of the Server Access Virtualization Technology Group at Cisco – he of the “OpenFlow is a fantasy” rant at a March ...

In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for servers and commodity ...

Palo Alto, Ca. – Big Switch Networks–formed to speed implementation of the new OpenFlow software-defined networking architecture in nextgen cloud architecture servers, routers, and switches–has just ...

Big Switch Networks “In making our open-source thin switching platform available to the market, we aim to accelerate the development of OpenFlow-based switches, both through ODM and OEM partners, ...

Big Switch Networks, the startup that was once the face of software-defined networking (SDN) to many, has had it rough lately. Overlay networks have become the rage, rather than the OpenFlow protocol ...

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY--(Marketwired - October 14, 2014) - Metaswitch Networks today announced it is using Broadcom Corporation's (BRCM) open-source OpenFlow Data Plane Abstraction (OF-DPA) software as ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Big Switch Networks officials are preparing an open-source ...

I had the chance to sit down with Kyle Forster, Co-founder of startup Big switch networks discussing their presence at Interop, what to expect from Big Switch, and the future of OpenFlow. Art Fewell: ...

Howie Xu has been at VMware since he co-invented and helped to launch the vSwitch. After leading the development efforts for VMware’s networking for much of the past 9 years, Howie joined OpenFlow ...