"David Ward is the CTO and chief architect of the Service
Provider Division and as such is directly involved with Cisco's
technical efforts. His role at ONF is about helping to ensure the
effort moves towards a real standards body. In terms of Cisco's
view of SDN in general terms, it's an area of active interest and
activity, today. "The machine is turned on," Ward said. "What I
mean is that Cisco is embracing and has been embracing the concepts
of software defined networking for quite a while now. We haven't
gone public because we've been doing the research side for
R&D.
