The momentum around the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Northbound API keeps growing. When is it going to be standardized? Who is in charge of standardizing it? Which implementation is likely to be ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. The Southbound interface between the switch and the controller was key to significant SDN possibilities.

With software-defined networking the control of the network is pried out of the data handling devices and centralized on a controller that uses a common protocol, OpenFlow, to direct the switches on ...

In many networking scenarios it is highly desirable to be able to guarantee the availability of certain capabilities such as minimum bandwidth or maximum latency to the users of the network. For ...

The Open Networking Foundation, a user-driven organization defining and promoting OpenFlow-based software-defined networks, has established a working group to define a “northbound” API between SDN ...