The Open Networking Foundation uniquely Co-Hosts the 2nd SDN World Congress dedicated to the advancement of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) movement. With over 350 delegates in 2012, it is the industry's largest and most important knowledge exchange.

SDN - THE WAY FORWARD
It's now abundantly clear that SDN is a major innovation in the telecoms industry with far reaching consequences for carriers, their network suppliers and their customers. SDN is no longer just a good idea: it's happening all around you now. SDN: More than just a tremor

NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALISATION - ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Carriers are looking to leverage SDN to help them consolidate many network equipment types onto industry standard high volume servers, switches and storage, thus providing a new network production environment, which lowers cost, raises efficiency and increases agility. The NFV initiative was launched by a group of Tier 1 carriers, including BT, NTT, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI and others, at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Darmstadt in October 2012 and will reach its first anniversary in Bad Homburg. Come and find out how NFV is progressing and what impact it will have on your business.

NEW! ENTERPRISE SDN FORUM
Current Analysis and Layer123 present the first SDN for Enterprise Networks forum in Europe as part of SDN & OpeFlow World Congress 2013. Join Current Analysis and its invited speakers to debate best practice methodologies for both setting up proof-of-concepts and preparing for the production roll-out of an SDN architecture within your own enterprise environment.  >> More details here

Service & content providers, network & data centre operators and enterprise customers (no vendor organisations please) can gain access to this World Congress free of registration fees, by agreeing to participate in the on-site knowledge exchange activities.  >> More details here

• Meet over 500 industry professionals - Now including Enterprise Networking professionals
  
• Join the experts and make important new contacts - the principal World Congress with relevance to the complete SDN ecosystem
• Gain a clear understanding of the commercial opportunities opened by SDN and OpenFlow
• Find out how and why carriers are advancing Network Functions Virtualisation
• Discover how early adopters are using/planning to use SDN - case studies from carriers, datacentre providers and large enterprises
• Hear the product roadmaps of leading vendors - how will SDN be incorporated into existing platforms and the evolution of new generation networking tools?
• Learn how to implement and build new network applications using SDN and OpenFlow
• Make significant steps towards a new paradigm in SDN enhanced networking
• Understand the value of Virtual Network Slicing
• Consider the impact of SDN on network architecture and integration of applications and control plane functions
• Application of OpenFlow and SDN in controlling broadcast domains, setting up and controlling Unicast paths and integration of network control more closely with the software ecosystem
• Application examples in Campus LAN, enterprise datacentres, service provider WANs and hyperscale datacentres for content providers

Layer123 is inviting the leaders in the SDN movement from all parts of the industry ecosystem - software specialists, network systems vendors, service providers and carriers, datacentre providers and large enterprise, to Bad Homburg, Frankfurt this October.

With 350 delegates at the first SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, uniquely co-hosted with the Open Networking Foundation, Layer123 is well placed to move this industry forward apace.

Join us and add your experience to the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress.

Contact us now to reserve your place, or to submit a paper (Please note, commercial conditions apply to vendor speaking submissions)
 

2012 DOCUMENTATION & ONLINE NETWORKING - If you missed the first SDN World Congress you can still benefit by obtaining the speakers' presentation slides and participating in the online networking.

The cost is £150. For this you receive copies of the speakers' presentation slides (Please note: a small number may not be released to Layer123 by the speaker) plus, you will be registered on the online networking system and can see who attended and communicate with delegates. 

Purchase Documentation here

View a recorded version of Google's Keynote at the World Congress

"Remaking the Network: The OpenFlow Reality" 
 

View a recording of Jim Wanderer's keynote at the inaugural SDN World Congress here

For a concise introduction to OpenFlow, SDN and their industry relevance, view a 25 minute pre-recorded webinar, hosted by Layer123 and the Open Networking Foundation - a CHANNEL123 production.
 

 
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Source: Open Networking Foundation

7 June 2013 – SDN key to driving public cloud services Today's cloud-based services, while clearly ground-breaking, still have important gaps to fill
Source: Telecom Asia

7 June 2013 – Taking SDN to Transport and Beyond the hottest acronym in the networking business is SDN
Source: Telecom Asia

6 June 2013 – Breaking News: What To Do With The Merged OpenDaylight SDN Controller? Update: Big Switch to scale back OpenDaylight involvement. Details on LightReading
Source: SDNCentral

24 May 2013 – Heavyweights Form CloudEthernet Forum The Forum says it will "work to develop Ethernet to enable collections of millions of virtual servers and storage devices to perform reliably and efficiently
Source: Light Reading

20 May 2013 – Software-controlled networking we are entering a decade of network virtualisation evolution, not revolution
Source: Analysys Mason

17 May 2013 – Six minute guide: what SDN & NFV REALLY mean The arrival of software-controlled networks and function virtualisation will change everything
Source: Telecom TV

15 May 2013 – NFV Picks Up Speed "The vendors are shocked at how quickly operators are moving on their virtualization plans," noted Heavy Reading Chief Analyst Graham Finnie
Source: Light Reading

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Source: Network World

10 May 2013 – Cyan Celebrates IPO on the NYSE Cyan will begin trading today on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "CYNI"
Source: NYSE Euronext

9 May 2013 – Internet2 and Networking Industry Partners Drive Innovation and Development of SDN and OpenFlow Applications for 100G Networks
Source: Internet2

8 May 2013 – Open Compute Will Begin Building Network Switches In a move that will likely accelerate the shakeup in the networking sector
Source: Data Centre Knowledge

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