OpenFlow blossoms

摘要

Belief in OpenFlow-based software-defined | networking is coalescing rapidly, the latest evidence being the overflow crowds at last week's Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., I and new details about a Cisco startup that has been formed to address the opportunity. After having to turn people away at an overflowing Summit meeting last October, event organizers shifted last week's meeting to a venue twice as large but still maxed out registration and had to create a wait list (see "Open Networking Summit 2012: Google, Verizon, NEC, others tackle future of OpenFlow"; tinyurl.com/ cup4agp).