Google's secret switch to the next wave of networking

By Thom Holwerda on 2012-04-17 17:16:42

"Google treats its infrastructure like a state secret, so Holzle rarely speaks about it in public. Today is one of those rare days: at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California, Holzle is announcing that Google essentially has remade a major part of its massive internal network, providing the company a bonanza in savings and efficiency. Google has done this by brashly adopting a new and radical open-source technology called OpenFlow."

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