This show is an introduction to OpenFlow – the why, how and what’s it gonna do ? We discuss OpenFlow with Matt Davey from Indiana University who is using OpenFlow enabled switches and wireless access points today.

The concept of a controller based LAN network is a powerful idea, and the OpenFlow Network Foundation has participation from large networking vendors, large cloud providers and big data companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo and so forth. This provides some validation that the technology is of keen interest.

Recently, venture capital funding has been moving into startups working on this technology.

Ivan and Greg both agree that this is potentially a game changing technology, especially for cloud networking with the potential to disrupt significant parts of the networking industry.