Boffins bash better brains into OpenFlow

One of the pitch points of open white-box networking is that it makes Ethernet switches extensible – something exploited by some packet boffins to build what they think is a better way to skin the network monitoring cat. The researchers, from Brown University, are trying to overcome the mismatch between the limitations of old- …

[Bronek Kozicki]

Nice, but ...

... how does this impact packet switching time inside the switch? For the fastest switches out there this is now measured well under a microsecond, and it is hard to see how data collection could reasonably work this fast, without hitting the ceiling on price and power.

[Sandgroper]

Re: Nice, but ...

Agreed. It works best in Powerpoint.