The revolution in software-defined networking (SDN) that is sweeping the data centre and telecoms industries has been inspired by the collision of virtualisation with advanced processing capabilities, said Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).
Pitt was in Dublin earlier this week to address the Open Tech Ireland gathering on SDN technology, presented in co-operation with the Irish Software Association, Intune Networks, KEMP Technologies, and Sanctum Networks.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, Yahoo! and Deutsche Telecom founded the Open Networking Foundation in 2011 to improve networking through SDN and standardise the OpenFlow protocol and related technologies.
