OpenFlow… ahh… that controversial word that has plenty in the industry taking side on whether they are on the “fan” SDN camp or on the “not-important” SDN camp.

For those who are interested in knowing more about how you can get your current network to migrate towards an OpenFlow-driven network, it is important to consider how migrations can take place and who has already done it (so you are not on the “bleeding edge”).

The below is a solutions brief I worked on as part of an ONF team in which the main migration considerations are presented and some prominent use cases are highlighted. This is the link to the solutions brief.