Big Switch Networks Previews Application-Aware SDN Cloud Fabric Using Bare Metal Switches
Unified Physical + Virtual (P+V) SDN, Bare Metal Switches and OpenStack Automation Enable New Economics in Cloud Networking
Big Switch Networks Expands Japanese SDN Market Presence Through New Partnership With UNIADEX
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/07/13 — Big Switch Networks today announced a new distribution agreement with leading Japanese distributor and system integrator UNIADEX, Ltd. to carry the company-s portfolio of Open SDN Fabric Solutions. The partnership allows Big Switch to further penetrate the rapidly growing Japanese SDN market, and will provide Japanese enterprise and data center customers with a powerful combination of breakthrough technology and advanced systems integration and
Yahoo! JAPAN Demonstrates an Array of SDN Solutions From CTC and Big Switch Networks at Interop Japan
TOKYO — (Marketwired) — 06/11/13 — Yahoo! JAPAN and ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) are jointly demonstrating an array of Software-Defined Network solutions for interconnecting data centers at scale using Big Switch Networks Big Network Controller and Switch Light at the Interop trade show here this week [CTC Booth @SDN ShowCase]."The demonstration shows the power of using Big Switch Networks Switch Light OpenFlow-based thin switching software on -bare metal- switches, dramati
Big Switch Networks Releases an Open Source OpenFlow Controller
PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwire) — 01/11/12 — Big Switch Networks, an OpenFlow company bringing the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks, today released Floodlight, an Apache-licensed open source OpenFlow Controller, as part of its commitment to the open source community around Software-Defined Networking (SDN)."The first instance of OpenFlow open source code was developed by the Stanford Research Lab — where several members of our company including myse
Big Switch Networks to Keynote at the North American Network Operators- Group (NANOG)
PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwire) — 10/07/11 — Big Switch Networks, an OpenFlow company bringing the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks, today announced that Rob Sherwood is giving a keynote address titled "OpenFlow: What is it and where is it going?" on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA at NANOG. NANOG is an educational and operational forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise
Big Switch Networks- OpenFlow-Based Controller Goes Into Beta
PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/24/11 — Big Switch Networks, an OpenFlow company bringing the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks, today announced that its Controller has moved into private beta."This is a big milestone for us," said Guido Appenzeller, CEO of Big Switch Networks. "We-ve been in alpha since January and have proven the OpenFlow basics in our alpha customers- production networks. We are excited to take the next step as we p
Big Switch Networks Named One of the Coolest Cloud Startups of 2011
PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwire) — 07/26/11 — Big Switch Networks, a new company building an OpenFlow-based platform to bring the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks, today announced that it has been named one of the 10 Coolest Cloud Startups of 2011 by CRN: ."It is an honor to be selected for CRN-s 10 Coolest List," said Kyle Forster, Big Switch Networks Co-Founder. "This is a great validation that OpenFlow is making networking technology inte