Software Defined Networks (SDN) talk at Structure 2010
July 6th, 2010 by grg
Prof Nick McKeown recently presented a talk on Software Defined Networks (SDN) at GigaOM Network’s Structure 2010 conference. One main thesis of SDN is the separation of control logic from forwarding logic; control logic running externally to the high-speed forwarding logic makes the decisions about how and where network traffic is forwarded. This allows new [...]
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Pronto 3290 Availability Announced
July 5th, 2010 by dtalayco
The Pronto 3290 is an Ethernet switch with 48 gigabit ports and four 10-gigabit ports based on Broadcom silicon. It supports the OpenFlow Switching 1.0 protocol with hardware acceleration for full matching support, all required actions and additional optional actions. Pricing, likely to be under $3000 for academic institutions, and availability have just been announced [...]
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