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 ...

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 ...

It’s not that the emerging OpenFlow standard as a foundation for software-defined networking (SDN) isn’t technically viable; it’s just that it’s beside the point. According to Prashant Gandhi, senior ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The rationale for opening up more layers than just the control and forwarding planes in network programmability is to glean as much statistical and analytical information as possible from the router ...

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 ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

On the road to becoming a shipping product, our Cisco ONE Controller goes thorough a number of steps. One such step is interoperability testing at InCTRE Interoperability Lab. I recently caught up ...

In fact, Cisco could build OpenFlow software with IOS/Nexus intelligence and integration as sort of a dual path strategy. If I’ve learned anything about the network industry it is this: Never (and I ...

Cisco last week announced a new open, standards-based network communication protocol called OpFlex as part of its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) architecture. Cisco defines ACI as a holistic ...