Big Switch was founded by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster, in an effort to help move OpenFlow forward. In an interview with InternetNews.com, Forster detailed how far forward his company has moved the ball over the last year as SDN enters the networking mainstream.
As OpenFlow and the Floodlight controller are open source, there is a degree of interoperability that would not have been possible otherwise, according to Forster. Prior to the open sourcing of Floodlight, Big Switch conducted an interoperability test and it took 600 emails to get everything together. Now that Floodlight is available as open source, anyone can freely download and test it on their own for interoperability, which removes barriers to adoption and entry.
“Because of open source, we just get a huge boom for free and if it works with open source than there is a 99.999 percent chance it works with our commercial controller as well,” Forster said.
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The OpenFlow Revolution is a Big Switch
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.