Adding OpenFlow to the NetIron and MLX lines will enable customers to implement SDNs on 100G Ethernet networks as well as on 10G nets, Brocade says.

OpenFlow is designed to enable programmatic control of network infrastructures and easier network service development and deployment. OpenFlow is being standardized by the Open Networking Foundation.

EXCITING STUFF:

Brocade rival . has a multifaceted SDN strategy that includes OpenFlow, an investment in startup -- which Cisco may acquire -- and an architecture called Open Programmable Environment for Networking, or .

of OpenFlow-enabled switches and orchestration tools, and IBM has demonstrated OpenFlow interoperability and recently announced a . has partnerships and an architecture that stresses standard APIs available today.