Brocade strengthens SDN leadership with OpenFlow 1.3 Support across IP Routing
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Extending the company’s leadership and evolutionary approach to Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Brocade(NASDAQ:BRCD) has announced support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP portfolio of routing and switching products. A key component of the company’s comprehensive SDN strategy, the expansion of OpenFlow support from the Brocade MLXe and CER/CES product families to the Brocade ICX and VDX switch families enables customers to achieve new agility and programmability across the network – from the data center to the campus to the wide area network (WAN). While earlier versions of OpenFlow are widely deployed among Research and Education Networks (RENs) and other early adopters, OpenFlow 1.3 delivers a richer feature set required for commercial and enterprise networks to address complex network behaviour and optimize performance for dynamic SDN applications. These features include Quality of Service (QoS)...