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access points, cellular base stations and WDM/TDM equipment. OpenFlow challenged the vertically integrated approach to switch and router design of the past twenty years. McKeown works closely with Guru
Parulkar, Executive Director of the Stanford Open Network Research Centre (ONRC) and the Open
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