OpenFlow is a set of technology standards that externalize the control plane from a standard packet-forwarding network. Some vendors stand to gain by these changes, some see OpenFlow as a potentially huge threat to their businesses, some aren’t sure what impact it will have, and some choose to ignore OpenFlow all together. OpenFlow has the potential to really change the networking industry just as server virtualization is changing application, server, and data center deployment. If OpenFlow gets “embraced and extended,” demands new skills, and required complex network programming, it resides in University labs and cloud computing alone.”]