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OpenFlow Video Introduction, Mike Banic
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"OpenFlow and SDN came from four years of research at Stanford and Berkeley. One of the key supporters over the years has been HP, who developed and donated prototype OpenFlow-enabled networking switches for the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford. Together, we continue to be closely involved in the development of the OpenFlow specification."
— Nick McKeown, professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
"ONF was founded to fundamentally rethink how we approach networking, and we are inspired by the rapid adoption of OpenFlow in the marketplace by major vendors and operators. We are pleased to see the continuous efforts by members to innovate and accelerate the creation and adoption of these standards, which bring the benefits of SDN solutions directly to users."
— Dan Pitt, executive director, Open Networking Foundation
"In our research, we recognized the need to innovate beyond existing network infrastructures to develop networking technology for the future. With support from HP, we developed our multivendor SDN Interoperability Lab to ensure product synergy and further advance the OpenFlow standard, with the goal of expanding the technology deployment to many more campuses."
— Matthew Davy, chief network architect, Indiana University
"As a national research test bed, one of the GENI Project's key missions is to deploy at-scale, programmable networks for researchers to create future applications and services. With HP's contributions to GENI, we have helped researchers experiment with OpenFlow across a rapidly growing, nationwide suite of infrastructure."
— Chip Elliot, principal investigator and project director, GENI Project Office
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OpenFlow enables virtual networking
At the foundation of virtualized networking is an emerging open standard called OpenFlow, which ultimately allows the network to be more responsive to business needs. OpenFlow has been developed in a six-year effort, led by Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. It is becoming an open standard defined by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).
OpenFlow hides the complexity of the individual pieces of the network devices, centralizes the control of those devices in a virtualized manner and simplifies network management for network managers.
The OpenFlow protocol also uses a standardized instruction set, which means that any OpenFlow controller can send a common set of instructions to any OpenFlow-enabled switch, regardless of vendor.
OpenFlow in a virtualized networking model
OpenFlow Media event
HP recently hosted a media event and issued a press release to communicate HP leadership in OpenFlow innovation.
At the event Matt Davey of Indiana University and Chip Elliott of the National Science Foundation GENI project presented their HP OpenFlow deployments, vision and collaboration with HPN.
The announcement builds on the successful broad market acceptance of the HP FlexNetwork architecture:
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