Using southbound APIs, network devices in this layer can receive instructions from the controller. OpenFlow is the most popular protocol that lets the controller instruct switches and routers.

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BlueNote Networks, a communications middleware vendor, will announce today two Web service APIs for its SOA Edition of SessionSuite middleware. The Outbound Notification Solution Framework (On-SF ...

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Understanding the differing roles RESTful APIs and MQTT play in the continuing evolution of industrial control networks.