When I was writing about the NEC+IBM OpenFlow trials, I figured out a perfect use case for OpenFlow-controlled network forwarding: SMB data centers that need less than a few hundred physical servers – be it bare-metal servers or hypervisor hosts (hat tip to Brad Hedlund for nudging me in the right direction a while ago)
As I wrote before, OpenFlow-controlled network forwarding (example: NEC, BigSwitch) experiences a totally different set of problems than OpenFlow-controlled edge (example: Nicira or XenServer vSwitch Controller).
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