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• SDN user group focuses on use cases

  The recent Open Networking User Group (ONUG) meeting in New York City attracted 400 participants, some of whom attended in-depth tutorial sessions about software defined networking (SDN) on day one, and others that stayed for the members-only closed door sessions on day two (vendors and press excluded). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Nick Lippis, who co-founded the SDN user group with representatives from Fidelity Investments, for his assessment of what was learned.

• Cisco competitors say Nexus 9000 brings closed hardware to an open software game

  Cisco's network competitors VMware, Arista and HP predictably found holes in this week's launch of the Insieme Networks product line and strategy.

• Cisco takes fight to SDNs with bold Insieme launch

  Game on: Cisco has acquired spin-in Insieme Networks for $863 million and rolled out a family of its switches that are the network giant's strategic answer to the growing software defined network movement.

• Cisco takes fight to SDNs with bold Insieme launch

  Game on: Cisco has acquired spin-in Insieme Networks for $863 million and rolled out a family of its switches that are the network giant's strategic answer to the growing software defined network movement.

• Insieme FAQ: a few key facts

  The launch of Insieme Networks has been one of the most anticipated events in the networking industry over the past 18 months or so, ever since word leaked that Cisco was funding the spin-in as its response to the software-defined networking trend. Today, Cisco ends the suspense and speculation on what the company has been working on and how it will impact SDNs specifically and the networking industry in general.

• Big Switch swaps out its CEO

  SDN start-up Big Switch Networks this week replaced its CEO with a former Juniper Networks executive as the company reboots its business plan in an attempt to boost the appeal of its products.

• IT shops share OpenFlow, SDN best practices

  Two users are putting OpenFlow and software-defined networks through their paces in projects of varied urgency.

• Cisco/Insieme ushering in hardware-defined networks

  Cisco is adamant that its upcoming Application Centric Infrastructure launch is not about SDNs.

• HP says open sourcing SDNs is wrong

  Vendors such as Juniper Networks that are open sourcing their SDN controllers are pursuing a wrongheaded strategy that misses the point of the technology, HP officials said this week.

• HP opens up on SDNs

  HP this week is establishing an "open" approach to SDN intended to accelerate programmable network deployments and stimulate demand for its switches and routers.

• Free open-source SDN app will analyze your network's complexity

  Enterprise infrastructure company Infoblox announced this week that it plans to release a free and open-source software tool called Tapestry aimed at generating a hard measurement of any network's complexity.

• Weighing the IT implications of implementing SDNs

  Software Defined Networks should make IT execs think about a lot of key factors before implementation.

• Planning for SDN

  In our first Network World Spotlight, "Understanding SDN" we spelled out the basics. Here we catch you up on the status of the movement and begin to lay out how you get there from here, examining basic planning, what to look for in an SDN controller, and discussing what the Open Networking Foundation hopes to achieve with its new Migration Group.

• Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology

  Juniper Networks is now shipping its SDN controller and has also made it available as open source code, signaling an intention to not develop product around the OpenDaylight SDN consortium's work.

• In Pictures: Software-defined networking explained

  Understand how SDN will change everything in 10 easy steps