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The Importance of Being Open: Launch

Today is a good day. It has been almost three years now since we first started sketching our plan for Big Switch Networks. It has been an incredible journey so far, and this is just the beginning.

A New Beginning in Networking – By Mike Volpi

When Guido and Kyle were looking for a name for their newly founded company, they were struggling to come up with something that captured the breadth of their vision for what they foresaw as the future of the networking business.

Medium, Large and Extra, Extra Large

Today, we announced the first closing on our B round — $25m of new capital, led by Satish Dharmaraj from Redpoint Ventures and joined by Goldman Sachs, our current venture investors (Mike Volpi at Index Ventures and Shirish Sathaye at Khosla Ventures) and our early angel investors.

OpenStack Summit and Quantum Team

Mike Cohen is Director of Strategic Alliances at Big Switch Networks and Sumit Naiksatam is a Member of the Technical Staff at Big Switch Networks and core developer on the Quantum project

The Next, New Era of Networking – By Jason Matlof

I’m excited and honored to announce that I’ve joined the Big Switch Networks team and am looking forward to being part of the most disruptive new product trend that we’ve seen in over 20 years in the data networking industry – the widespread adoption of software-defined networks.

Big Switch Networks Appoints Network Industry Veterans to Lead Marketing and Sales Efforts as SDN Market Explodes

Big Switch Networks™, the leading platform-independent Software-Defined Networking (SDN) company appointed Jason Matlof as VP of Marketing and Dave Butler as VP of Sales as the company prepares to launch and ship its first commercial products.

Rob Sherwood Appointed ONF Architecture Working Group Chair

Big Switch Networks™, the leading platform-independent Software-Defined Networking (SDN) vendor, announced the appointment of Rob Sherwood as the chair of the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) new Architecture & Framework Working Group (ArchWG).

Big Switch: To Floodlight and Beyond!

As one of the founding members of the Floodlight team, I’ve spent the past few months deeply immersed in OpenFlow and SDN, working closely with developers from major networking vendors, cloud providers, research institutions, and universities.

SDN: A First Shot Fired...

Our inboxes and voicemail have been filled in the last few days with inquiries of all types, including career, customer, partner and investment inquiries!

Software-Defined Networking: One Config To Rule Them All...

Cisco's recent announcement about its position on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) gave me a feeling of "deja vu." After delving into what Cisco's made available, I think the feeling was justified: Cisco isn't really planning anything that different from what it's been doing for the last 10-15 year