Press Releases

May 07, 2013

Big Switch Networks Teams with F5 to Automate Configuration of Application Delivery Networking Services in Private Clouds

Solution simplifies orchestration and speeds cloud deployments using F5’s BIG-IQ Cloud Rest API and Big Switch Networks Big Virtual Switch Application

May 06, 2013

Prashant Gandhi Joins Big Switch Networks as Vice President of Product Management

Former Cisco ONE Controller and cloud networking executive joins the market leader in Open SDN

May 03, 2013

Big Switch Networks Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand 100 Winner

Recognized for creating new opportunities in on-demand software, cloud computing, and SaaS.

In The News

May 08, 2013

This Indian Engineer Just Ditched Cisco For Its Biggest Rival

Cisco just lost one of their key executives, Prashant Gandhi who was...
May 06, 2013

Cisco’s Prashant Gandhi Bolts to Upstart Big Switch Networks

The company announced today that Prashant Gandhi, a senior director...
May 06, 2013

Cisco's OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch

Here's a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi,...

Events

Monday, April 15, 2013 (All day) to Thursday, April 18, 2013 (All day)

Openstack Summit

Come visit us in Portland, Oregon the week of April 15-18. See us at booth C19
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Monday, April 15, 2013 (All day) to Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (All day)

Open Networking Summit

Our CEO, Guido Appenzeller, and Rob Sherwood, CTO, Controller technologies, will be speaking at the Open Network Summit on April 15th and you can catch us on the show floor at booth #307. Open Networking Summit will be held at the San Jose Convention Center, Hyatt Hotel.
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Blog

April 24, 2013

Big Switch Networks Controller Code Proposal Added to OpenDaylight as a “Bootstrap” Project

Contribution includes code from wildly popular Floodlight controller project and significant elements of Big Switch Networks Open SDN SuiteLast week, Big Switch Networks’ proposed controller code contribution to the OpenDaylight Project was added as a bootstrap project under the name “Open SDN Controller Platform” (OpenDaylight Project wiki). This is an important first step in the merit-base... Read more

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April 23, 2013

Progress in Portland: Charting a Path for OpenStack Network Services

OpenStack Networking @ Havana Summit, Portland, April 2013Last week, I attended the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon and was extremely encouraged by many things: that the conference doubled in size since last year, the successful release of Grizzly, and by some really significant progress made with regard to network services by a diverse group of us network types.  Here are my takeaways f... Read more

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April 19, 2013

Making Sense of So-Called “SDN” Offerings

With the wide-range of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) announcements coming from various vendors large and small, I can only imagine the frustration customers must feel trying to make sense of this emerging market. There is no doubt that we’re are in a big hype cycle!  While vendor interest is certainly a great validation of the SDN market, someone needs to cut through the chaos and expla... Read more

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