Google, Facebook and Microsoft are among the heavy hitters of the tech industry that have teamed up to support a new, cloud-focused initiative called Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
Along with Yahoo, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom and 17 others, the companies on Monday formed a group dubbed the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting SDN as a way to customize networks and speed network innovation.

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