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November 13, 2012

A New Beginning in Networking – By Mike Volpi

When Guido and Kyle were looking for a name for their newly founded company, they were struggling to come up with something that captured the breadth of their vision for what they foresaw as the future of the networking business.  They could have found another randomly-generated five or six letter Latin-sounding name, but that didn’t seem to do the vision or the company justice.IP networkin... Read more

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A new beginning in networking

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October 30, 2012

Medium, Large and Extra, Extra Large

Today, we announced the first closing on our B round — $25m of new capital, led by Satish Dharmaraj from Redpoint Ventures and joined by Goldman Sachs, our current venture investors (Mike Volpi at Index Ventures and Shirish Sathaye at Khosla Ventures) and our early angel investors.This was a proud day for everyone here at the company, not only because of the amount of capital raised and the high... Read more

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October 12, 2012

OpenStack Summit and Quantum Team

Mike Cohen is Director of Strategic Alliances at Big Switch Networks and Sumit Naiksatam is a Member of the Technical Staff at Big Switch Networks and core developer on the Quantum projectMike: Having just returned from a crazy week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego, Sumit and I wanted to share our reflections, observations, and learnings over the past several days. It was an amazing (and tirin... Read more

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Quantum Project
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October 08, 2012

Big Switch Networks Appoints Network Industry Veterans to Lead Marketing and Sales Efforts as SDN Market Explodes

Big Switch Networks™, the leading platform-independent Software-Defined Networking (SDN) company appointed Jason Matlof as VP of Marketing and Dave Butler as VP of Sales as the company prepares to launch and ship its first commercial products.“It is gratifying to see that every major infrastructure vendor is making SDN announcements, because it’s an enormous validation of our development eff... Read more

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October 08, 2012

The Next, New Era of Networking – By Jason Matlof

I’m excited and honored to announce that I’ve joined the Big Switch Networks team and am looking forward to being part of the most disruptive new product trend that we’ve seen in over 20 years in the data networking industry – the widespread adoption of software-defined networks.In the past, I’ve been part of two prior new networking product category trends – Ethernet switching in the ... Read more

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September 30, 2012

Rob Sherwood Appointed ONF Architecture Working Group Chair

Big Switch Networks™, the leading platform-independent Software-Defined Networking (SDN) vendor, announced the appointment of Rob Sherwood as the chair of the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) new Architecture & Framework Working Group (ArchWG). The ONF ArchWG will map out the scope of SDN in terms of architecture and framework for OpenFlow and other components. Rob’s appointment reinfo... Read more

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August 16, 2012

Big Switch: To Floodlight and Beyond!

As one of the founding members of the Floodlight team, I’ve spent the past few months deeply immersed in OpenFlow and SDN, working closely with developers from major networking vendors, cloud providers, research institutions, and universities.  I’ve also been slammed speaking to enterprise datacenter operators and cloud providers about how SDN gives them the flexibility, value, and vendor... Read more

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July 27, 2012

SDN: A First Shot Fired...

Our inboxes and voicemail have been filled in the last few days with inquiries of all types, including career, customer, partner and investment inquiries! We thought this would be a good opportunity to share a few thoughts on the first acquisition in our space of Software-Defined Networking (SDN): VMware is buying Nicira.First, it's fantastic to see that networking is hot again :) As one analyst s... Read more

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June 27, 2012

Software-Defined Networking: One Config To Rule Them All...

Cisco's recent announcement about its position on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) gave me a feeling of "deja vu." After delving into what Cisco's made available, I think the feeling was justified: Cisco isn't really planning anything that different from what it's been doing for the last 10-15 years.The Cisco announcment also made me realize we need to have some serious discussions around what ex... Read more

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May 08, 2012

On the Eve of Interop 2012: The Importance of Being Open

I'm here in Las Vegas at Interop 2012, just finishing my day "0" (the show floor hasn't even officially opened yet). I've already listened to half-a-day's worth of talks/workshops about Software-Defined Networking, OpenFlow, and real-world, production use cases from a variety of companies (including ours!).It's exciting to see how far Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow have come. Last ... Read more

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