While mobility, , and business collaboration tools are expected to be introduced at the show in Las Vegas, which will see an estimated 13,000 attendees and 350 exhibitors, SDN will be showcased as multiple participants. switch vendor , for example, will demonstrate how to build a software-defined cloud network using its switches and controllers from partners VMware, Big Switch and Nebula.

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IBM will demo a high-performance SDN using , which is a protocol and API that enables SDN. IBM will also be part of the Interop OpenFlow Lab which will include Broadcom, Brocade, Extreme, HP, NEC and others showing off the SDN technology.

Hailed by proponents as the biggest transformation of networking in decades, SDN promises to make the physical infrastructure irrelevant to the actual behavior of the traffic by enabling software programmability of flows and additional features.