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Former Cisco ONE Controller and cloud networking executive joins the market leader in Open SDN

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In The News

May 08, 2013
Cisco just lost one of their key executives, Prashant Gandhi who was...
May 06, 2013
The company announced today that Prashant Gandhi, a senior director...
May 06, 2013
Here's a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi,...

Events

Monday, April 15, 2013 (All day) to Thursday, April 18, 2013 (All day)

Openstack Summit

Come visit us in Portland, Oregon the week of April 15-18. See us at booth C19
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Monday, April 15, 2013 (All day) to Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (All day)

Open Networking Summit

Our CEO, Guido Appenzeller, and Rob Sherwood, CTO, Controller technologies, will be speaking at the Open Network Summit on April 15th and you can catch us on the show floor at booth #307. Open Networking Summit will be held at the San Jose Convention Center, Hyatt Hotel.
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Blog

The sky is falling. The Earth is flat. OpenFlow is not robust. OpenFlow is a toy. OpenFlow is not deployable at large scale.All these charges (well maybe not the first two) are being leveled by incumbent networking hardware vendors desperately trying to slow down OpenFlow adoption, while they figure out how to continue extracting the same obscene margins from their customers.At the Open Network... Read more

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Contribution includes code from wildly popular Floodlight controller project and significant elements of Big Switch Networks Open SDN SuiteLast week, Big Switch Networks’ proposed controller code contribution to the OpenDaylight Project was added as a bootstrap project under the name “Open SDN Controller Platform” (OpenDaylight Project wiki). This is an important first step in the merit-base... Read more

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OpenStack Networking @ Havana Summit, Portland, April 2013Last week, I attended the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon and was extremely encouraged by many things: that the conference doubled in size since last year, the successful release of Grizzly, and by some really significant progress made with regard to network services by a diverse group of us network types.  Here are my takeaways f... Read more

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