Networking hardware: what drives innovation?

We present an educational platform for teaching the design, debugging and deployment of real networking equipment in the operational Internet. The emphasis of our work is on teaching and, therefore, on providing an environment that is flexible, robust, ...

The OpenFlow framework allows the data plane of a network switch to be managed by a software-based controller. This enables a software-defined networking model in which sophisticated network management policies can be deployed. In this paper, we present ...

<P>This paper presents a theory of innovation which presumes that new technologies emerge from a firm's accumulated stock of skills. Among these we distinguish technological and networking skills. We examine two aspects of innovating firms: their ...