Press Releases

May 07, 2013

Big Switch Networks Teams with F5 to Automate Configuration of Application Delivery Networking Services in Private Clouds

Solution simplifies orchestration and speeds cloud deployments using F5’s BIG-IQ Cloud Rest API and Big Switch Networks Big Virtual Switch Application

May 06, 2013

Prashant Gandhi Joins Big Switch Networks as Vice President of Product Management

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

May 03, 2013

Big Switch Networks Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand 100 Winner

Recognized for creating new opportunities in on-demand software, cloud computing, and SaaS.

In The News

May 08, 2013

This Indian Engineer Just Ditched Cisco For Its Biggest Rival

Cisco just lost one of their key executives, Prashant Gandhi who was...
May 06, 2013

Cisco’s Prashant Gandhi Bolts to Upstart Big Switch Networks

The company announced today that Prashant Gandhi, a senior director...
May 06, 2013

Cisco's OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch

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

May 21, 2013

The Earth is Round and OpenFlow Works

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

Tags: 
Openflow; Open Networking Summit; ONS; Vint Cerf; SDN; Software-Defined Networking
Topics: 
Adoption of OpenFlow and Software Defined Networks

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April 24, 2013

Big Switch Networks Controller Code Proposal Added to OpenDaylight as a “Bootstrap” Project

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

Tags: 
Open Daylight; Jason Matlof; SDN; SDN Controller; Software Defined Networking; OpenFlow Controller
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Big Switch Networks contributes Floodlight Controller to OpenDaylight Project

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April 23, 2013

Progress in Portland: Charting a Path for OpenStack Network Services

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

Tags: 
Openstack; OpenStack Networking Summit 2013; Grizzly; Quantum Plugin; Havanna; Service Chaining; SDN; Software-Defined Networking; Firewall Service
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Big Switch Networks at OpenStack Networking Summit 2013

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