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• Border Gateway Protocol as a hybrid SDN protocol

  Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a well-known core Internet protocol, is being adapted for use as a hybrid SDN protocol.  Continue Reading

• Will the VMware-Cisco partnership become irrelevant?

  The VMware-Cisco relationship started out as a tech partnership but is turning into a war. Which company will control network virtualization and SDN?  Continue Reading

• A primer on northbound APIs: Their role in a software-defined network

  This primer explores the concept of SDN northbound APIs, their key benefits, who's using them and why.  Continue Reading

• Software-defined networking washing is the new cloud washing

  Marketing pros sell every new technology as if it's software-defined networking. But this 'SDN washing' masks true innovation and insults our intelligence.  Continue Reading

• Software-defined networking applications move beyond the data center

  Software-defined networking is often considered a data center technology, but new SDN applications will improve performance in the LAN and WAN as well.  Continue Reading

• Software defined networking for the private cloud network bottleneck?

  Manual networks stifle the otherwise automated private cloud. Can software defined networking and network virtualization solve the problem?  Continue Reading

• IBM DOVE: Big Blue enters the network virtualization battleground

  Look out Nicira and Big Switch, IBM is developing a network virtualization strategy that relies on its own virtual network overlay technology.  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Big Switch's OpenFlow play is big news for cloud networking

  Cloud services require a more dynamic approach to networking like OpenFlow offers. Big Switch Networks' cloud networking play, Open SDN, appears to be a promising answer.  Continue Reading

• Commentary: Cisco may lead in cloud networks if it does OpenFlow right

  Networking vendors haven't met providers' needs for cloud networks. But Cisco's reported commitment to OpenFlow and SDN may change the game, says commentator Tom Nolle.  Continue Reading

• OpenFlow protocol primer: Looking under the hood

  We know the OpenFlow protocol can be used to abstract the network control plane from underlying physical infrastructure, but how exactly does the protocol work?  Continue Reading

• The application tier of a software-defined networking architecture

  In a software-defined networking architecture, controller-based OpenFlow applications could deliver highly scalable, efficient and manageable network services.  Continue Reading