Cisco On Board with SDN, OpenFlow

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 21, 2012

“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.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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