Brocade bags SDN Idol 2014 at Open Networking Summit

Brocade has declared that it has been chosen the winner of SDN Idol 2014 at the Open Networking Summit 2014 for its “Real-Time SDN Analytics for DDoS Mitigation” OpenFlow application.
 
This SDN application maximizes network bandwidth utilization by providing a highly competitive and performance-oriented solution that detects and mitigates network threats like DDoS attacks in real time. It leverages Brocade MLXe Core Routers in an OpenDaylight Project framework and exhibits automatic detection and rate-limiting of aggregate large flows such as SYN Flood Attacks. Brocade’s support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP product line to extend SDNs beyond research and academia and into commercial and enterprise networks mirrors the gradual adoption of SDN that it predicts enterprises preferring over full rip-and-replace deployments.
 
SDN Idol is a competition that showcases disruptive SDN technologies, products or use cases from exhibitors at the Open Networking Summit 2014. The finalists were chosen by industry experts according to the following criteria: Business Value, Technology Value, Differentiation against competition, Advancement of overall SDN and Demo.