Openflow (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles OpenFlow is a communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network. In simpler terms, OpenFlow allows the path-of-network-packets-through-the-network-of-switches to be determined by software running on a separate server. This separation of the control from the forwarding allows for more sophisticated traffic management than feasible using access control lists (ACL)s and routing protocols. Its inventors consider OpenFlow an enabler of "Software Defined Networking."