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OpenFlow Inventor Martin Casado on SDN, VMware, and Software Defined Networking Hype [VIDEO]

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 30, 2013

Software Defined Networking (SDN) hype is everywhere in the networking market today. The hype cycle began with Martin Casado’s thesis work at Stanford in 2005. Casado went on to found Nicira Networks, a company acquired by VMware in 2012 for $1.26 billion….

Casado’s company, Nicira, is also one of the original developers of the Open vSwitch technology. Open vSwitch enables a virtual switch inside of software and has been part of the mainline Linux kernel since the Linux 3.3 release in March 2012
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